2005.45: Three-assaria coin of Chios under the Antonines
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2005.45
- Title
- Three-assaria coin of Chios under the Antonines
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 138-192
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Chios (Ionian Islands)
- Period
- Roman Imperial period, Middle
- Culture
- Roman Provincial
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/48272
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Bronze
- Metal
- AE
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 15.06 g
- Die Axis
- 6
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- BMC p. 342, no. 122
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Cornelius C. Vermeule, III
- Accession Year
- 2005
- Object Number
- 2005.45
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Obv.: Sphinx seated to r., with r. fore-paw raised; in front, a prow. Above: ACCAPIA retrograde; in exergue: TPIA
Rev.: Apolloon l. holding patera and Dionysos on r., holding thyrsos and cantharos, both standing facing and clad in himatia; between them, a flaming altar. In lower fields l. and r, XIWN.
Verification Level
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