Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Objects on loan

The ANS has a total of 294 objects on long-term loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art throughout their ancient, Byzantine, and medieval galleries. Highlights of the loan include:

Silver Stater, Neapolis, 510–500 BCE. 1941.153.278
Silver 4 drachm (tetradrachm)
Silver 4 drachm (tetradrachm), Agrigentum, 460–450 BCE. 1925.141.3
Silver Tetradrachm, Aenus, 405–357 BCE. 1967.152.221
Silver Drachm, Argos, 370–360 BCE. 1958.155.1
Silver Coin of Seleucus I Nicator, Pergamum, 281 BCE. 1967.152.675
Silver 4 drachm (tetradrachm) of Eumenes I of Pergamum, Pergamum, 263—241 BCE. 1944.100.43182
Bronze As of Nero, Rome, 62—68 CE. 1937.158.476
Gold Aureus of Postumus, Cologne, 266 CE. 1967.153.199
Silver denier of Charlemagne, Western Europe/Low Countries, 793–812. 0000.999.3124
Gold Nomisma of Michael VIII, Constantinople, 1261–1282. 1968.131.409