1.1965.1381: Hemidrachm of Lamia
Coins
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1.1965.1381
- Title
- Hemidrachm of Lamia
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 400 BCE-344 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Lamia (Thessaly)
- Period
- Classical period, Late
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/184820
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Metal
- AR
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 2.68 g
- Die Axis
- 12
- Denomination
- hemidrachm
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
- Reverse Inscription: LAMIEON
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Glendining, 7 March 1957 (Ambassador), 83 (part)
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- BCD, Triton XV, 123; SNGCop 77; Georgiou 2004, p. 161 and pl. 1, 6
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Loan from the Trustees of the Arthur Stone Dewing Greek Numismatic Foundation
- Object Number
- 1.1965.1381
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
-
Obverse: Head of young Dionysos l., wearing ivy wreath.
Reverse: Amphora; above, ivy leaf; to r., pitcher, handle r.
Verification Level
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