Drachm of Alexander the Great, Magnesia ad Maeandrum

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1963.44.39
People: Alexander III, the Great, Greek (r. 336-323 BCE Babylon)
Title: Drachm of Alexander the Great, Magnesia ad Maeandrum
Classification: Coins
Work Type: coin
Date: 323 BCE - 319 BCE
Places: Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Magnesia ad Meandron (Ionia)
Period: Hellenistic period, Early
Culture: Greek
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/181562

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Silver
Metal: AR
Technique: Struck
Dimensions: 4.17 g
Die Axis: 12
Denomination: drachm

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: Price 1945

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Misses Aimée and Rosamond Lamb in memory of William Eliot Lamb, Class of 1858, Keeper and Cataloguer of the coins of the University in that year
Accession Year: 1963
Object Number: 1963.44.39
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Obverse: Head of young Heracles r. wearing lion skin.
Reverse: Zeus seated l. on throne holding eagle and scepter; to l., thyrsus.

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