Coin: ar decadrachm

Museum number:
8-7818
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21080007818
Accession number:
Acc.2850
Description:
Copy made by museum of 8-4748. For description, see 8-4748. 2nd Card: Coin; Silver Dekadrachma, 35.3 mm.; 37.3 g. Good but worn on one side. Obverse: Legend [Greek symbols]. No signature. Head of Arethusa facing left, wearing earrings, necklace, headband and net; four dolphins around; border of dots. Reverse: Quadriga facing left; charioteer crowned by Nike flying right; in exergue helmet, thrax, greaves. Below [Greek symbols]. Forgery.
Donor:
Newton K. Gregg
Collection place:
Syracuse (ancient colony)
Verbatim coll. place:
Sicily
Production place:
Syracuse (ancient colony)
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Person depicted:
Arethusa (Greek deity)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Coins (money) and Decadrachms
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers and 7.6 Bogus Currency
Production date:
after 1800 AD
Accession date:
1972
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Loans:
S1977-1978 #12: Cunningham & Walsh Advertising, Inc. (October 5, 1977–October 13, 1977)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Coin: ar decadrachm, accession number 8-7818, described as Copy made by museum of 8-4748. For description, see 8-4748. 2nd Card: Coin; Silver Dekadrachma, 35.3 mm.; 37.3 g. Good but worn on one side. Obverse: Legend [Greek symbols]. No signature. Head of Arethusa facing left, wearing earrings, necklace, headband and net; four dolphins around; border of dots. Reverse: Quadriga facing left; charioteer crowned by Nike flying right; in exergue helmet, thrax, greaves. Below [Greek symbols]. Forgery.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Coin: ar decadrachm, accession number 8-7818, described as Copy made by museum of 8-4748. For description, see 8-4748. 2nd Card: Coin; Silver Dekadrachma, 35.3 mm.; 37.3 g. Good but worn on one side. Obverse: Legend [Greek symbols]. No signature. Head of Arethusa facing left, wearing earrings, necklace, headband and net; four dolphins around; border of dots. Reverse: Quadriga facing left; charioteer crowned by Nike flying right; in exergue helmet, thrax, greaves. Below [Greek symbols]. Forgery.

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