Object class: Drachma-based coins / Collector: Benjamin Ide Wheeler / Materials: Silver (metal) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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1. Coin: ar

Museum number:: 8-5532
Culture or time period:: Greek Hellenistic Period (323–30 BC)
Object class:: Coins (money) and Tetradrachms
Function:: 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers and 7.6 Bogus Currency
Production date:: 310-304 BC
Collector:: Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Person depicted:: Nike (Greek diety) and Persephone (Greek deity)

2. Coin: ar didrachm

Museum number:: 8-5471
Culture or time period:: Greek Classical Period (480–323 BC)
Object class:: Coins (money) and Didrachms
Function:: 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:: 334-302 BC
Dimensions:: weight 8.05 grams and linear 21 millimeters
Collector:: Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Collection place:: Calabria, Southern Italy
Collection date:: unknown
Person depicted:: Taras (Greek hero)

3. Coin: ar didrachm

Museum number:: 8-5470
Culture or time period:: Roman Conquest of Italy (396–242 BC)
Object class:: Coins (money) and Didrachms
Function:: 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:: 281-272 BC
Dimensions:: weight 6.49 grams and linear 23 millimeters
Collector:: Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Collection place:: Calabria, Southern Italy
Collection date:: unknown
Person depicted:: Taras (Greek hero)

4. Coin: ar didrachm

Museum number:: 8-5480
Culture or time period:: Greek Classical Period (480–323 BC)
Object class:: Athena, Coins (money), and Didrachms
Function:: 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:: 527-430 BC
Dimensions:: linear 14 millimeters and weight 4.1 grams
Collector:: Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Collection place:: Athens, Attica, Greece
Collection date:: unknown
Person depicted:: Athena (Greek deity)

5. Coin: ar didrachm

Museum number:: 8-5469
Culture or time period:: Roman Conquest of Italy (396–242 BC)
Object class:: Coins (money) and Didrachms
Function:: 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:: 281-272 BC
Dimensions:: linear 21 millimeters and weight 6.38 grams
Collector:: Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Collection place:: Calabria, Southern Italy
Collection date:: unknown
Person depicted:: Taras (Greek hero)

6. Coin: ar didrachm

Museum number:: 8-5478
Culture or time period:: Greek Classical Period (480–323 BC)
Object class:: Athena, Coins (money), and Didrachms
Function:: 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:: after 400 BC
Dimensions:: weight 7.62 grams and linear 21.5 millimeters
Collector:: Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Collection place:: Basilicata, Southern Italy
Collection date:: unknown
Person depicted:: Athena (Greek deity)

7. Coin: ar drachm

Museum number:: 8-5488
Culture or time period:: Greek Classical Period (480–323 BC)
Object class:: Coins (money) and Drachms
Function:: 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers and 7.6 Bogus Currency
Production date:: ca 650-480 BC
Collector:: Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Collection place:: Caria, Anatolia, Turkey
Person depicted:: Aphrodite (Greek deity)

8. Coin: ar tetradrachm

Museum number:: 8-5539
Object class:: Coins (money) and Tetradrachms
Function:: 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:: ca. 150-125 BC
Dimensions:: weight 17.4 grams
Collector:: Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Collection place:: Bactria (ancient region)
Collection date:: Bactria
Person depicted:: Heliokles II Dikaios (King of Bactria) and Zeus (Greek deity)

9. Coin: ar tetradrachm

Museum number:: 8-5526
Culture or time period:: Greek Hellenistic Period (323–30 BC)
Object class:: Coins (money) and Tetradrachms
Function:: 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:: after 146 BC
Dimensions:: linear 30 millimeters and weight 16.7 grams
Collector:: Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Collection place:: Thasos, North Aegean, Greece
Collection date:: unknown
Person depicted:: Dionysus/Bacchus (Greek and Roman deity) and Heracles (Greek and Roman diety)

10. Coin: ar tetradrachm

Museum number:: 8-5482
Culture or time period:: Greek Classical Period (480–323 BC)
Object class:: Coins (money) and Tetradrachms
Function:: 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:: 359-336 BC
Dimensions:: linear 25 millimeters and weight 14.42 grams
Collector:: Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Collection place:: Greece
Person depicted:: Phillip II (King of Macedon)