Karanis / coin / Billon
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.04.1139
- Other Number
- Haatvedt 452
- Type of Number
- Catalogue Number
- Object Name
- coin
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Coins
- Materials
- Billon
- Weight
- 12.1 g
- Quantity
- 1
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Verbatim Date
- 187/188 AD
- Unit Grid Number
- B0514
- Component/Room
- 00A
- Area
- R
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Karanis
- Production Site
- site
- Denomination
- tetradrachm
- Authority
- Commodus_as_Augustus
- Mint
- Alexandria
- Countermark
- no
- Coin Obverse Description
- Head Commodus r., laur.
- Coin Reverse Description
- Pharos as square tower, surmounted by lantern upon which is a statue; on either side of lantern, Triton blowing buccinum; to r. of Pharos, ship sailing r. over waves.
- Exhibition Title
- Ancient/Modern: The Design of Everyday Things
- Exhibition Curator
- Encina, Sebastián Enrique
- Exhibition Year
- 2014
- Type Category
- Numismatic
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.04.1139
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.04.1139/dsc_3015.jpg
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- Full citation
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"Karanis; coin; Billon." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.04.1139/dsc_3015.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.
