- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2008.115.87
- People
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Anonymous
- Title
- Anonymous Romano-Campanian Didrachm, Metapontum
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 300 BCE-275 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Lucania, Metapontion (Lucania)
- Period
- Roman Republican period
- Culture
- Roman Republican
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- silver
- Metal
- AR
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 6.93 g
- Die Axis
- 9
- Denomination
- didrachm
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Reverse Inscription: On base below horse's head, ROMANO
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- RRC 13/1; Rutter (HN3 Italy) 266
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University
- Accession Year
- 2008
- Object Number
- 2008.115.87
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Obv.: Head of Mars l., wearing Corinthian helmet; to r., oak-spray. No border.
Rev.: Horse's head r. on base; behind, corn ear; on base, ROMANO. No border.
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