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Object Type: coin
Museum number: 1946,0101.31
Description: Copper alloy coin. (whole); Male head with African features, right. (obverse); Elephant, right. (reverse)
Cultures/periods: Greek
Production date: 275BC-225BC (about)
Production place: Minted in: Chiana, Val di (?); Minted in: Etruria (historic - Italy) (inland)
Materials: copper alloy
Dimensions: Weight: 5.190 grammes
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Tripp, David Enders. ‘Coinage.’ Etruscan life and afterlife: a handbook of Etruscan studies, edited by Larissa Bonfante. Warmister: Aris & Phillips, 1986. p. 213, fig. VI,16.
Bibliographic references: HN Italy / Historia Numorum : Italy (69) (type); SNG Lloyd / Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Lloyd Collection (31)
Location: On display (G71/dc14/no10)
Subjects: elephant
Acquisition name: Donated by: Mrs Jessie Lloyd; In Memory of: Dr Albert Hugh Lloyd; In Memory of: Muriel Eleanor Haydon Lloyd
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Clarence S Bement
Acquisition date: 1946
Acquisition notes: Lloyd Bequest
Department: Money and Medals
Registration number: 1946,0101.31

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