Coin: ar tetradrachm

Museum number:
8-4753
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21080004753
Accession number:
Acc.184
Description:
Coin; AR; Tetradrachm; Greek. 16.46 grams, 29 mm. Maroneia, Greece. Before 400 BC. Obverse: Head of Dionysos l. Reverse: ΜΑΡΩΝΙ ΤΕΩΝ, bunch of grapes in linear square; to right, thyrsos.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Maroneia, Western Thrace, Greece
Production place:
Maroneia, Western Thrace, Greece
Culture or time period:
Greek Classical Period (480–323 BC)
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Silver (metal)
Person depicted:
Dionysus/Bacchus (Greek and Roman deity)
Inscription:
ΜΑΡΩΝΙ ΤΕΩΝ
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Coins (money) and Tetradrachms
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers and 7.6 Bogus Currency
Production date:
ca. 400 BC
Accession date:
1905
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Coin: ar tetradrachm, accession number 8-4753, described as Coin; AR; Tetradrachm; Greek. 16.46 grams, 29 mm. Maroneia, Greece. Before 400 BC. Obverse: Head of Dionysos l. Reverse: ΜΑΡΩΝΙ ΤΕΩΝ, bunch of grapes in linear square; to right, thyrsos.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Coin: ar tetradrachm, accession number 8-4753, described as Coin; AR; Tetradrachm; Greek. 16.46 grams, 29 mm. Maroneia, Greece. Before 400 BC. Obverse: Head of Dionysos l. Reverse: ΜΑΡΩΝΙ ΤΕΩΝ, bunch of grapes in linear square; to right, thyrsos.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Coin: ar tetradrachm, accession number 8-4753, described as Coin; AR; Tetradrachm; Greek. 16.46 grams, 29 mm. Maroneia, Greece. Before 400 BC. Obverse: Head of Dionysos l. Reverse: ΜΑΡΩΝΙ ΤΕΩΝ, bunch of grapes in linear square; to right, thyrsos.

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