MK-B | Delphi: Amphiktyonen 336-334 v. Chr.

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Delphi: Amphiktyonen 336-334 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Temporary Exhibitions TAU5/68 TOPOI: Threedimensional Representations on greek coins I
Obverse	Verschleierter Kopf der Demeter mit Ährenkranz nach l.
Reverse	AMΦI-KTIO-[NΩN]. Apollon Phythios auf dem Omphalos nach l. sitzend. Er hält einen langen Lorbeerzweig diagonal vor seinen Körper und stützt seinen r. Arm auf seine Leier (kithara). Ganz l. ein Dreifuß.
Class/status	City
Date	336-334 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 ; 11,98 g; 21-24 mm; 9 h
Production	struck
Secondary treatments	pierced
Mint	Delphi
Region	Phokis
Country	Greece
Publications	A. von Sallet, Erwerbungen des Kgl. Münzcabinets in den Jahren 1890-1897, ZfN 21, 1898, 204 Taf. 4,5 (dieses Stück); E. J. P. Raven, The Amphictionic coinage of Delphi, Numismatic Chronicle 1950, 21 Stempel H/n (dieses Stück); A. Baldwin Brett, Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Catalogue of Greek coins (1955) 132 Nr. 978; BMC Phocis 27 Nr. 22; C. M. Kraay, Archaic and classical Greek coins (1976) 122 Nr. 414.
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Accession	1890/383
Object number	18226528
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