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Drachm of Lycia with head of Aphrodite, struck under Khäriga
Greek
Classical Period
410 B.C.
Mint: Lycia, Antiphellos
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 18 mm. Weight: 3.21 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1120
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 2087.
DescriptionObverse: Female head to left with T shaped earring and necklace, hair caught up behind. Beaded line at edge of neck.
Reverse: In incuse square, tetraskeles about a circle in which is an owl to left.
Inscription around.
Reverse: In incuse square, tetraskeles about a circle in which is an owl to left.
Inscription around.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren; purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, September, 1904
Not listed as Greenwell by Regling.
Not listed as Greenwell by Regling.