Price 1993

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Typological Description

  • Object Type: Coin
  • Date Range: 305 BCE - 297 BCE
  • Denomination: Drachma
  • 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): lion-head l.
    • Symbol (Left Field): Ε
    • Symbol (Beneath Throne): Price Monogram 119 symbol, consists of Α and Ρ
  • TypeSeries: Price (1991)

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Silver Coin, Magnesia ad Maeandrum, 305 BCE - 297 BCE. 1944.100.31681
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
1
Diameter (in mm)
17.0
Weight (in gr.)
4.14
Silver Coin, Magnesia ad Maeandrum, 305 BCE - 297 BCE. 1944.100.31728
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
17.5
Weight (in gr.)
4.19
Hoard
IGCH 1423
Silver Coin, Magnesia ad Maeandrum, 305 BCE - 297 BCE 1944.100.31680
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
17.5
Weight (in gr.)
3.92
Hoard
IGCH 1768
Silver Coin, Magnesia ad Maeandrum, 305 BCE - 297 BCE. 1944.100.31683
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
18.0
Weight (in gr.)
4.1
[Monnaie : Drachme, argent, types d'Alexandre III le Grand, Magnésie du Méandre, Ionie]
Collection
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Identifier
Fonds général 938
Diameter (in mm)
18
Weight (in gr.)
4.05
DNB GR-02714
Collection
National Numismatic Collection, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam
Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
17
Weight (in gr.)
3.9
Makedonien: Alexandros III. ca. 305-297 v. Chr.
Collection
Münzkabinett Berlin
Identifier
18249592
Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
17
Weight (in gr.)
4.09
British Museum: 1898,0602.47
Collection
British Museum
Axis
12
Weight (in gr.)
4.06

Quantitative Analysis

Average measurements for this coin type:

Axis
10.43
Diameter (in mm)
17.43
Weight (in gr.)
4.06

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Annotations

1. Edward T. Newell hoard notebook, undated

Sections
128
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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