Coin: ar hemidrachm
- Museum number:
- 8-8091
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21080008091
- Alternate number:
- lindgren 32 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.3101
- Description:
- Coin; Silver half-drachma; size: 12 mm.; weight: 1.968 gm. Obverse: Head of Alexander I facing right, radiate. Reverse: Apollo, naked, standing facing left; holds arrow and bow; inscription: ]ΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ]ΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ.
- Donor:
- Fredrica Lippman Lindgren and Henry Clay Lindgren
- Collection place:
- Syria
- Culture or time period:
- Greek Hellenistic Period (323–30 BC) and Seleucid (312 BC to 63 BC)
- Collector:
- Fredrica Lippman Lindgren and Henry Clay Lindgren
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Materials:
- Silver (metal)
- Person depicted:
- Alexander I Balas (King of Syria) and Apollo (Greek and Roman diety)
- Inscription:
- ]ΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ]ΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ.
- Object type:
- archaeology
- Object class:
- Coins (money) and Hemidrachms
- Function:
- 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
- Production date:
- 150-145 BC
- Accession date:
- January 20, 1978
- Department:
- Classical Mediterranean
- Dimensions:
- linear 12 millimeters and weight 1.968 grams
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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