Stater of Corinth
Place made:Corinth, Greece, Europe
Culture: Greek
Date: ca. 500-480 B.C.
Medium: Silver
Dimensions:
11/16 × 13/16 in. (1.8 × 2.1 cm)
Die Axis: 11
Credit Line: Purchased with the W. C. Maverick Fund
Object number: 92.42.2
Inscribed: Obverse: ϙ
Provenance: Found near Asyut, Egypt, 1969 [note 1]; London or New York market by 1970; sold, Numismatics Fine Arts, Los Angeles, April 23, 1992, lot 675, to San Antonio Museum of Art.
Note 1: M. Price and N. Waggoner, Archaic Greek Coinage: The Asyut Hoard (London, 1975), 77, no. 583, pl. 22.
Label Text
Obverse: Pegasus; ϙ
Reverse: Head of Athena, wearing a Corinthian helmet
This coin was part of the Asyut Hoard, a group of approximately 900 Greek
coins buried ca. 475 B.C. in central Egypt and discovered in 1969. The test
cut was made in antiquity to verify that the coin was made of solid silver.
(J. Powers, 2008)
Reverse: Head of Athena, wearing a Corinthian helmet
This coin was part of the Asyut Hoard, a group of approximately 900 Greek
coins buried ca. 475 B.C. in central Egypt and discovered in 1969. The test
cut was made in antiquity to verify that the coin was made of solid silver.
(J. Powers, 2008)
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