Drachm coin amulet
- Description
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Ancient foreign coins were popular items collected by Victorian and later collectors. This museum holds a small collection of Greek and Roman coins donated by local residents. A hole has been pierced through this ancient Greek coin so it could be worn as an amulet.
- Accession Loan No.
- 19/1903
- Collection Class
- Numismatics
- Common Name
- drachm coin amulet
- Simple Name
- coin
- Full Name
- drachm, pierced, amulet?
- Dimensions
- whole diameter 15 mm; whole TH 2 mm
- Cultural Group
- Greek
- Period Classification
- Hellenistic - 336-146 BC
- Production Year Low
- -181
- Production Year High
- -174
- Family Group
-
- Material
- silver
- Collector / Excavator
- Pearse, JP, Rev
- Collection Area Region
- Southern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
- Issuer Person
- Phraates I
- Place
- Parthia
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This is most probably a coin of the Arcadian League, with the image of the seated Zeus Lykaios and a local deity or nymph in incuse square. The nominal is a silver hemidrachm and the chronology is around mid of 5th century BC.