- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1.1965.623
- Title
- Tetradrachm of Leontinoi
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- c. 466 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Leontinoi (Sicily)
- Period
- Classical period, Early
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/188763
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver
- Metal
- AR
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 17.13 g
- Die Axis
- 2
- Denomination
- tetradrachm
- Provenance
- Glendining, 24 Nov. 1950 (Ryan), 1503 = Ars Classica 16, 3 June 1933), 538 = Hess, 27 Oct. 1932, 572 = Sotheby, 8 May 1916 (Headlam), 40 = J. Hirsch, 11, 4 May 1904, 96
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Loan from the Trustees of the Arthur Stone Dewing Greek Numismatic Foundation
- Object Number
- 1.1965.623
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Obv.: Quadriga driven by beardless charioteer holding branch-like staff; above, Nike crowning charioteer; in exergue, lion running r. Border of dots.
Rev.: LEONTINON (Chalcidian lambda); laureate head of Apollo in severe style; around, three laurel leaves; beneath, lion running r.
[Overstruck; tooled in modern times.]
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