Coin: electrum (barbarous imitation)
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- Museum number:
- 8-5567
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21080005567
- Accession number:
- Acc.925
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Coin; Electrum; Greek. 1.1 grams, 9 mm. Obverse: Head of lion r., barbarous. Reverse: rough incuse square. Remarks: "Cimmerian imitation of Lydian “lion-coin” of ca. 600 BC.
- Donor:
- John L. Balderston
- Collection place:
- Cimmeria (ancient Crimea)
- Production place:
- Sub Mint L, Cimmeria
- Culture or time period:
- Cimmerians (ca. 1000-ca. 619 BC) and Lydians (ca. 1200 -546 BC)
- Collector:
- John L. Balderston
- Materials:
- Electrum
- Object type:
- archaeology
- Object class:
- Coins (money)
- Function:
- 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers and 7.6 Bogus Currency
- Production date:
- ca. 600 BC
- Accession date:
- 1947
- Department:
- Classical Mediterranean
- Dimensions:
- weight 1.1 grams and linear 9 millimeters
- Loans:
- S1973-1974 #26: Classics (UC Berkeley)/Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr. (October 23, 1973–October 26, 1973)