MK-B | Kyrene ca. 435-330 v. Chr.

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Kyrene ca. 435-330 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Gallery Bode-Museum Room 242, BM32/042 The Ancient World to the End of the 3rd Cent. AD
Obverse	K - V / A - P. Silphionstaude.
Reverse	Kopf des Zeus Ammon mit Widderhorn nach r.
Class/status	City
Date	ca. 435-330 v. Chr. Classical
Denomination	Stater Stater Literally the resp. one unit. Hence designating the main unit within a certain currency of a Greek city or realm. The silver tetradrachm of Athens or the tridrachm of Corinth hence are also the stater within each denominational system. The main meaning though, especially in modern scholarship, is that of a denomination in gold of about 8.6 grams in the Attic standard.
	Silver ; 13,04 g; 27 mm; 2 h
Production	struck
Mint	Cyrene
Region	Kyrenaika
Country	Libya
Publications	BMC Cyrenaica S. XLVIII Nr. 73 a Taf. 8,11 (dieses Stück). Vgl. SNG Kopenhagen Nr. 1184 Taf. 28.
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Accession	1872/996
Vendor (to Museum)	Paulos Ioannes Lambros
Object number	18200186
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