coin
- Museum number
- EH,p303.2.Dem
- Description
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Copper alloy coin. (whole)
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Head of Tyche, right, wearing turreted crown; dotted border. (obverse)
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Nike standing left; in outstretched right hand, wreath; over left shoulder, tylis. (reverse)
- Production date
- 95BC-88BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Die-axis: 1 o'clock
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Weight: 3.17 grammes
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This coin is one of a group minted in Damascus during the period the city was renamed 'Demetrias'. It has been suggested that the male head on the obverse of most of them can be identified with Demetrius III or with Antiochus XII, but this is not certain. Only the city is named in the inscription and not the kings and the style of the inscription is that of a city minting an autonomous coinage.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1837 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- This is the historic catalogue of Greek coins acquired before 1837 made by Edward Hawkins, then Keeper of the Department of Antiquities. It does not include the collections previously acquired from Payne Knight (1824), George III (1825), Burrell (1832), and Hine (1825), or the coins included in Taylor Combe's 1814 catalogue.
- Department
- Money and Medals
- Registration number
- EH,p303.2.Dem
- C&M catalogue number
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GC20 (BMC Greek (Galatia)) (289) (2)