Both sides of an irregularly shaped silver-gray coin with relief decoration on each side.　
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On the side of the coin on the left is a man with goat legs and long hair, kneeling facing right, supporting a woman with long hair under her thighs with his right arm, his left hand under her back. The other side of the coin depicts four squares indented surrounded by a larger square.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.1965.1314
Title
Stater of Thasos
Classification
Coins
Work Type
coin
Date
520 BCE- 480 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Thasos (Thrace)
Period
Archaic period
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/185811

Location

Location
Level 3, Room 3400, Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Art, Ancient Greece in Black and Orange
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Metal
AR
Technique
Struck
Dimensions
9.7 g
Die Axis
not assignable
Denomination
stater

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Le Rider 2; Picard Gr. I 1; cf. SNGCop (2) 1007-1012

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
1.1965.1314
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Obv.: Satyr running r., carrying off nymph
Rev.: Rough quadripartite incuse square

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3400 Greek, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 01/01/2050

Verification Level

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