Price 3756

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Typological Description

  • Object Type: Coin
  • Date Range: 311 BCE - 305 BCE
  • Denomination: Tetradrachm
  • Manufacture: Struck
  • Material: Silver

  • Authority

  • Geographic

  • Obverse

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

  • Reverse

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
    • Type: Zeus seated on stool-throne left, eagle on outstretched right hand, sceptre in left hand
    • Deity: Zeus
    • Symbol (Left Field): ΜΙ
    • Symbol (Left Field): crescent
    • Symbol (Beneath Throne): monogram
  • TypeSeries: Price (1991)

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Silver Coin, Babylon, 311 BCE - 305 BCE. 1944.100.80954
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
26.0
Weight (in gr.)
16.975
Silver Coin, Babylon, 311 BCE - 305 BCE. 1944.100.80955
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
27.0
Weight (in gr.)
17.12
Silver Coin, Babylon, 311 BCE - 305 BCE 1973.80.2
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
27.0
Weight (in gr.)
16.53
Silver Coin, Babylon, 311 BCE - 305 BCE 1944.100.80947
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
2
Diameter (in mm)
25.0
Weight (in gr.)
17.04
Silver Coin, Babylon, 311 BCE - 305 BCE 1947.98.382
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
3
Diameter (in mm)
26.0
Weight (in gr.)
17.025
Silver Coin, Babylon, 311 BCE - 305 BCE. 1944.100.80975
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
8
Diameter (in mm)
25.0
Weight (in gr.)
17.0
Silver Coin, Babylon, 311 BCE - 305 BCE. 1944.100.80974
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
9
Diameter (in mm)
26.0
Weight (in gr.)
16.95
DNB GR-02779
Collection
National Numismatic Collection, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam
Axis
11
Diameter (in mm)
25
Weight (in gr.)
16.64
Makedonien: Alexandros III. ca. 311-300 v. Chr.
Collection
Münzkabinett Berlin
Identifier
18251855
Axis
16
Diameter (in mm)
27
Weight (in gr.)
16.94
British Museum: RPK,p80E.97.AleIII
Collection
British Museum
Axis
11
Weight (in gr.)
16.94
Ancient Greek silver coin in the name of Alexander III of Macedon from Babylon, c. 311 BC–c. 305 BC: HCR23751
Collection
Ashmolean Museum
Axis
5
Diameter (in mm)
24.7
Weight (in gr.)
17.15
Hoard
IGCH 1670

Quantitative Analysis

Average measurements for this coin type:

Axis
9.18
Diameter (in mm)
25.87
Weight (in gr.)
16.94

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Annotations

1. Edward T. Newell hoard notebook, circa 1939

Sections
Loose 4, 12, 12, 69
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
121
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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