Tetradrachm of Aesillas as Quaestor in Macedonia, Thessalonike

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2002.36
People: Issued by Aesillas, Roman
Title: Tetradrachm of Aesillas as Quaestor in Macedonia, Thessalonike
Classification: Coins
Work Type: coin
Date: 90 BCE - 70 BCE
Places: Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Thessalonike (Macedonia)
Period: Roman Republican period
Culture: Roman
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/147241

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Silver
Metal: AR
Technique: Struck
Dimensions: 16.35 g
Die Axis: 11
Denomination: tetradrachm

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: CNG Sale 53, 15 March 2000, no. 226.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Cornelius C. Vermeule, III
Accession Year: 2002
Object Number: 2002.36
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Obv.: Head of Alexander the Great r. with flowing hair.
Rev.: Fiscus, club and quaestor's chair within laurel wreath.

Exhibition History

Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/22/2007 - 01/20/2008

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2002.36: Tetradrachm of Aesillas as Quaestor in Macedonia, Thessalonike