coin / Bronze / Copper

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.08.4524
Other Number: 01544
Type of Number: PV_NUMBER
Object Name: coin
Lot: Gillman, Dr. Robert W.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Coins
Materials: Bronze; Copper
Weight: 5.7
Quantity: 1
Pierced: no
Inscribed: no
Artifact Reverse Inscription: ΠΤΟΛΕ[ΜΑΙΟΥ] ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ
Earliest Date: 285 BCE
Latest Date: 246 BCE
Verbatim Date: 285-246 BCE
Production Site: site
Denomination: AE20
Authority: Ptolemy II Philadelphus?
Mint: Tyre
Overstruck: no
Countermark: no
Pierced: no
Coin Obverse Description: Diademed head of Zeus Ammon, to right.
Coin Reverse Description: Eagle standing left on thunderbolt. In field to left, club.
Publication Title: Ta nomismata tou kratous tōn Ptolemaiōn (4 vols.); Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum, Part 40: Egypt: The Ptolemies
Publication Author: Svorōnos, Iōannēs N.; Nationalmuseet (Denmark)
Publication Year: 1904-1908; 1977
Class Title: Readings in Classical Greek Prose; Greek Numismatics/Roman Numismatics (W2022)
Class Instructor: Janko, Richard; Soto-Marin, Irene
Class Department: Greek; CLARCH
Class Number: 401; 632
Class Year: 2011; 2022
Class Semester: Fall; Winter
Type Category: Numismatic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.08.4524
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.08.4524/dsc_0861.jpg

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Full citation: "coin; Bronze; Copper." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.08.4524/dsc_0861.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.