Coin: ar tetradrachm
- Museum number:
- 8-4759
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21080004759
- Alternate number:
- Price #1676 (from Price 1991)
- Accession number:
- Acc.184
- Description:
- Coin; AR; Tetradrachm; Greek. 15.97 grams, 34 mm. Alexander the Great, posthumous. Obverse: Bust of Heracles r. Reverse: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡ..., Zeus seated l., eagle on outstretched r. hand, scepter in l.; too left, E; to right, oenochoebeneath vine-tendril.
- Donor:
- Alfred Emerson
- Collection place:
- Temnus (historic place), Aeolia
- Production place:
- Temnus (historic place), Aeolia
- Culture or time period:
- Hellenistic Macedonia (323-168 BC)
- Collector:
- Alfred Emerson
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Materials:
- Silver (metal)
- Person depicted:
- Heracles (Greek and Roman diety) and Zeus (Greek deity)
- Inscription:
- Reverse legend: ALEXANDR [...]
- Object type:
- archaeology
- Object class:
- Coins (money) and Tetradrachms
- Function:
- 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
- Production date:
- 188-170 BC
- Accession date:
- 1905
- Department:
- Classical Mediterranean
- Dimensions:
- linear 34 millimeters and weight 15.97 grams
- Comment:
- Stated Authority: Alexander III of Macedon
- Loans:
- S1971-1972 #151: Department of Art History (UC Berkeley)/Anna M. McCann (July 9, 1972–June 9, 1972)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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