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Tetradrachm of Kingdom of Paionia with head of Patraos

Greek
Late Classical or Early Hellenistic Period
335–315 B.C.
Mint: Paionia (Kingdom)

Medium/Technique Silver
Dimensions Diameter: 23 mm. Weight: 12.90 gm.
Credit Line Catharine Page Perkins Fund
Accession Number00.177
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 0738.
DescriptionObverse: Head of Apollo, laureate, to right.
Border of dots.
Reverse: Horseman, galloing to right, spearing prostrate Persian foe, who defends himself with a lance and a round shield with Macedonian decoration (central boss and border of crescents with dots).
Beneath the horse, three small dots.
Brandmark on croup of horse?
Inscription in Greek above horseman..
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren; 1900: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren