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Tetradrachm of Odessos with head of Herakles, struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedonia
Greek
Hellenistic Period
about 280–200 B.C.
Mint: Thrace, Odessos
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 30 mm. Weight: 16.82 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.736
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 0696
DescriptionObverse: Head of youthful Herakles to right with lion's skin.
Reverse: Zeus seated sidewise to left on throne with high back, right foot drawn back a himation over his knees, on right hand an eagle, left hand on sceptre.
Inscriptions in Greek at right and left.
Monograms at left and below throne.
Reverse: Zeus seated sidewise to left on throne with high back, right foot drawn back a himation over his knees, on right hand an eagle, left hand on sceptre.
Inscriptions in Greek at right and left.
Monograms at left and below throne.
ProvenanceCanon William Greenwell (b. 1820 - d. 1918), Durham, England. 1904, sold by Edward Perry Warren to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 1, 1904)
NOTE: Not listed as Greenwell by K. Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren (1906), p. 107, no. 661.
NOTE: Not listed as Greenwell by K. Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren (1906), p. 107, no. 661.