Price 1549

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Typological Description

  • Object Type: Coin
  • Date Range: 310 BCE - 301 BCE
  • Denomination: Tetradrachm
  • Manufacture: Struck
  • Material: Silver

  • Authority

  • Geographic

  • Obverse

    • Type: Head of beardless Heracles right wearing lion skin headdress
    • Deity: Heracles

  • Reverse

    • Legend: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
    • Type: Zeus seated on stool-throne left, eagle on outstretched right hand, sceptre in left hand
    • Deity: Zeus
    • Symbol (Left Field): head of Ammon r.
    • Symbol (Beneath Throne): Price Monogram 420 symbol, consists of Η and Ω
  • TypeSeries: Price (1991)

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Silver Coin, Abydus, 310 BCE - 301 BCE 1944.100.84403
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
11
Weight (in gr.)
17.135
[Monnaie : Tétradrachme, argent, types d'Alexandre III le Grand, Abydos, Troade]
Collection
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Identifier
Fonds général 560
Diameter (in mm)
26
Weight (in gr.)
16.79
[Monnaie : Tétradrachme, argent, types d'Alexandre III le Grand, Abydos, Troade]
Collection
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Identifier
Fonds général 561
Diameter (in mm)
27
Weight (in gr.)
16.78
Makedonien: Alexandros III. (posthum) 310–301 v. Chr.
Collection
Münzkabinett Wien
Identifier
ID116739
Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
24
Weight (in gr.)
17.14
Hoard
IGCH 1516
Makedonien: Alexandros III. ca. 310-301 v. Chr.
Collection
Münzkabinett Berlin
Identifier
18250977
Axis
11
Diameter (in mm)
28
Weight (in gr.)
17.13
Makedonien: Alexandros III. ca. 310-301 v. Chr.
Collection
Münzkabinett Berlin
Identifier
18250976
Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
26
Weight (in gr.)
16.86
British Museum: 2002,0101.350
Collection
British Museum
Axis
12
Weight (in gr.)
17.11

Quantitative Analysis

Average measurements for this coin type:

Axis
11.6
Diameter (in mm)
26.2
Weight (in gr.)
16.99

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Annotations

1. Edward T. Newell hoard notebook, circa 1939

Sections
3
Creator
Newell, Edward Theodore, 1886-1941
Abstract
Notebook of handwritten notes on ancient Greek coin hoards, including Aleppo, 1893; Afiun Kara Hissar, Arpagot, 1918; Adrianople; Asia Minor, 1929; Babylon, 1900; Byblus, 1931; Chalcis, 1935; Chalcidice (Olynthus?); Demanhur, 1900; Epidaurus, 1903; Gebal (Byblus), 1931; Homs, 1934; Homs, 1927; Khorsabad; Mesopotamia (Dunne); Nicomedia (probably Thessalian hoard); Tell Halaf, 1911; Thessalian, 1938. Also, one loose sheet of Pera Palace Hotel (Constantinople) letterhead containing four pages of notes labeled "Antioch" Hoard.
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2. Edward T. Newell hoard notebook, undated

Sections
193
Creator
Newell, Edward Theodore, 1886-1941
Abstract
Notebook containing notes on coins of various hoards, along with loose leaves with additional coin lists, notes, and rubbings. A detached label once adhered to the cover of the album reads, "HOARDS II." Includes a letter to Margaret Thompson from Martin Price of the British Museum relating to a joint project on the coins of Alexander the Great (1968). Hoards covered in the notebook are Sardis, Anadol, Aleppo, Ankyra, Aintab, Andhritsena, Abu Hommos, Taranto, Bithynian, Demanhur, Chalcis (Eretria), Calabria, Constantinople, Cyprus (Larnaka), Peloponessos, Drama, Greece (Tiffany), Eretria, Epidaurus, Sparta, Patras, Gesou, Haiffa, Prof. Haynes, Saida, Jandolo, Anadol, Kuft, Kyparissia, Keleler, Karditsa, Messene, Larnaka, Lamia, Latakie, Mosul, Marasesti, Patras, Parthian, Philip II Staters, Ravel, Salonica, Sophikon, Taranto, Tripolitsa, Thebes, Urfa, Gejou, Lamia, and Kyparissia.
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