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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.115.27
Title
Coin of Smyrna, Ionia
Classification
Coins
Work Type
coin
Date
105 - 95 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Smyrna (Ionia)
Period
Hellenistic period, Late
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/20688

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Metal
AE
Technique
Struck
Dimensions
3.44 g
Die Axis
12

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Collection of Margarete Bieber: bought fro, Schulman, NY, March 1973

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Milne 295; SNG von Aulock 2168

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Celia and Walter Gilbert, Claude-Claire Grenier, and the Marian H. Phinney Fund
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.115.27
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Obv.: Female head to r. wearing a turreted crown (Kybele or Amazon Smyrna)
Rev.: Female figure standing facing, veiled, wearing polos on her head, a himation, leaning left arm on a column and holding a small Nike, torch (?) in r. arm: Aphrodite Stratonikis

Verification Level

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