1997.260.152: Coin of Apollonia
Coins
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1997.260.152
- Title
- Coin of Apollonia
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 229-100 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Apollonia (Illyria)
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/213223
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Bronze
- Metal
- AE
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 14.31 g
- Die Axis
- 6
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
- Reverse Inscription: AΠOΛΛΩ NIATAN
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Gift of Richard Wells
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- BMC 58; SNG Cop. 412; cf. Head p.1314; Apollonia p. 94-97
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Estate of H. Bartlett Wells
- Accession Year
- 1997
- Object Number
- 1997.260.152
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
-
Obv.: Head of young Dionysus l., ivy crowned.
Rev.: Cornucopiae bound with fillet.
Verification Level
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