1.1965.1288: Didrachm of Dikaia
Coins
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1.1965.1288
- Title
- Didrachm of Dikaia
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 492 BCE-475 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Dikaia (Thrace)
- Period
- Classical period, Early
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/185895
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Metal
- AR
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 6.49 g
- Die Axis
- 12
- Denomination
- didrachm
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
- Reverse Inscription: D[IK]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Gans, MBS 24 March 1953, 27.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- May 31a (this coin); Schoenert-Geiss 23/1 (this coin);
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
- 1.1965.1288
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
-
Obverse: Bearded head of Herakles r.
Reverse: Bull's head l.; all in shallow incuse square.
Verification Level
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