Coin

Physical description

Silver Turkish coin. Obverse: head of young Dionysos, left facing, wreathed with ivy. Reverse: Heracles attaching a spear to a trophy (consisting of a helmet, greaves, shield and cuirass); beside the trophy, there is a club. Coin of Bithynia?

 

Categories

Currencies Metalwork

Materials

Silver metal

Subjects

Heracles Dionysos

Date Made

347 B.C.E.-338 B.C.E.

Date Acquired

Jun 1957

How Acquired

Donated

Credit Line

The Sid Leary Memorial Collection

Measurements

Overall: .5 cm x 2.0 cm x 1.8 cm

Object Number

2189/250