Object class: Stater-based coins / Collector: Benjamin Ide Wheeler / Function: 7.6 Bogus Currency - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Coin: ar stater, accession number 8-5460, described as Coin; AR; Stater; Greek. 6.8 grams. 26.6 mm. Poseidonia, Italy. Obverse: ΜΟΠ, Poseidon standing r. holding oblanys and trident. Reverse: incuse; but no trident, and the figurine is to left, insor. is around to right outwards. Remarks: "Forgery

Hearst Museum object titled Coin: ar stater, accession number 8-5537, described as Coin; AR; Stater; Greek. 8.2 grams. Knossos, Crete. Obverse: woman’s head facing right. Reverse: Asterisk within meander-fylfot. Remarks: "Forgery of Greek silver coin" "(two electrotypes joined together over a heavy core?)

Hearst Museum object titled Coin: ar stater, accession number 8-5536, described as Coin; AR; Stater; Greek. 8.7 grams, 25 mm. 6th century BC. Taranto, Italy. Obverse: TAΡAΣ, Taras on dolphin r.; below, scallop shell. Reverse: Similar design incuse; border of radiating lines sunk below field.

Hearst Museum object titled Coin: av, accession number 8-5481, described as Coin; AU; Half Stater; Greek. 4.7 grams, 18 mm. Alexander of Epirus, 342-326 BC. Obverse: Head of Zeus r. Reverse: Thunderbolt and spearhead; to left, ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ; to right, TOYNCOΠΤΟΛΕΜΟΥ. Remarks: "Possible forgery.