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Object Type: coin
Museum number: 1859,1219.15
Description: Silver coin. (whole); Head of Demeter left, veiled, hair bound with corn-wreath. (obverse); Apollo wearing long chiton, seated left on omphalos decorated with fillets; right arm rests on lyre; left hand holds laurel-branch; to left, tripod. (reverse)
Authority: Issuer: Amphictyonic Council
Cultures/periods: Greek
Production date: 346BC (circa)
Production place: Minted in: Delphi (historic - city)
Materials: silver
Dimensions: Die-axis: 12 o'clock; Weight: 12.140 grammes
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Bibliographic references: BMC Greek (Central Greece) / Catalogue of Greek coins: Central Greece (Locris, Phocis, Boeotia and Euboea) (22, p.27); Kraay 1976 / Archaic and Classical Greek Coins (414) (pl. 22)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: religious object; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Demeter/Ceres; Representation of: Apollo
Acquisition name: Purchased from: John Rushout, 2nd Baron Northwick; Purchased through: Sotheby's
Acquisition date: 1859
Department: Money and Medals
Registration number: 1859,1219.15
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: HSBC.1509 (Money Gallery Exhibited)
C&M catalogue number: GC8 (BMC Greek (Central Greece)) (27) (22)
Conservation: Treatment: 03 Sep 1996; Treatment: 08 Jun 2000

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