Stater of Athens
Place made:Athens, Greece
Culture: Greek
Period: Hellenistic period
Date: ca. 296 B.C.
Medium: Gold
Dimensions:
diam.: 5/8 in. (16 mm)
8.57 grams
Die Axis: 9
Credit Line: Purchased with the W. C. Maverick Fund
Object number: 93.95.5
Inscribed: Reverse: AΘE
Provenance: Gorny and Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung Auktion, Munich, October 11, 1988, lot 240. George and Robert Stevenson by 1993; sold, Classical Numismatic Group, June 11, 1993, lot 73, to San Antonio Museum of Art.
Label Text
Obverse: Head of Athena, wearing an Attic helmet
Reverse: Owl, with an olive sprig, a crescent moon, and a kalathos (wool basket); AΘE
The Athenian tyrant Lachares stripped the gold from the cult statue of Athena
in the Parthenon to mint this issue of staters.
(J. Powers, 2008)
Reverse: Owl, with an olive sprig, a crescent moon, and a kalathos (wool basket); AΘE
The Athenian tyrant Lachares stripped the gold from the cult statue of Athena
in the Parthenon to mint this issue of staters.
(J. Powers, 2008)
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