Coin: æ
- Museum number:
- 8-8063
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21080008063
- Alternate number:
- Lindgren 3 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.3101
- Description:
- Coin; Æ; bronze issue; size: 20 mm.; weight: 5.79 gm. Hieron II. Obverse: Head of Persephone facing left, wearing earring and necklace. Hair rolled and bound with wreath of barley; border of dots; inscription left: [ΣΥΡ]Α[Κ]ΟΣΙ[ωΝ]. Reverse: Bull butting facing left, . , above which, club facing left; beneath club, M, IE in exergue, plain border.
- Donor:
- Fredrica Lippman Lindgren and Henry Clay Lindgren
- Collection place:
- Syracuse (ancient colony)
- Production place:
- Syracuse (ancient colony)
- Culture or time period:
- Greek Hellenistic Period (323–30 BC)
- Collector:
- Fredrica Lippman Lindgren and Henry Clay Lindgren
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Materials:
- Bronze (metal)
- Person depicted:
- Persephone (Greek deity)
- Inscription:
- Obverse legend: [ΣΥΡ]Α[Κ]ΟΣΙ[ωΝ] and Reverse exergue: IE
- Object type:
- archaeology
- Object class:
- Coins (money)
- Function:
- 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
- Production date:
- 275-216 BC
- Accession date:
- January 20, 1978
- Department:
- Classical Mediterranean
- Dimensions:
- weight 5.79 grams and linear 20 millimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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