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Tetradrachm of Kingdom of Syria with head of Zeus, struck under Seleukos I
Greek
Early Hellenistic Period
296–280 B.C.
Mint: Syria (Kingdom), Seleukeia-on-the-Tigris (Babylonia)
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 28 mm. Weight: 17.04 gm. Die Axis: 6
Credit Line
Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Accession Number60.521
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Greek Coins, 1950-1963 (MFA), no. 258.
DescriptionObverse: Wreathed head of Zeus to right.
Reverse: Armed Athena to right, in quadriga of elephants.
Above: anchor and monogram from the Greek letters: H P and A
Inscription around.
Reverse: Armed Athena to right, in quadriga of elephants.
Above: anchor and monogram from the Greek letters: H P and A
Inscription around.
ProvenanceBy 1924: R. Jameson Collection (Collection R. Jameson, vol. 3, Suite des Monnaies Grecques Antiques et Impériales Romaines, Paris, Chez Feuardent Frères, no. 2343); by 1960: with Adolph Hess AG, Haldenstrasse 5, Lucerne, Switzerland and Bank Leu & Co. AG, Bahnhofstrasse 32, Zurich, Switzerland (auction, Hotel Schweizerhof, Lucerne, April 7, lot 238); purchased at the Hess Leu auction on behalf of MFA by Spink & Son, Ltd., 5-7 King Street, St. James's, London S.W. 1, England; May 11, 1960: purchased by MFA from Spink & Son, Ltd. for Swiss fr. 8,221 (this is the total price for 60.518-60.525)