MK-B | Lykien ca. 470-440 v. Chr.

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Lykien ca. 470-440 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Gallery Bode-Museum Room 241, BM8/247 The Zagazig Hoard (Egypt)
Obverse	Eber nach l.
Reverse	Vorderteil eines nach r. liegenden Greifen (protome), die l. Tatze ist erhoben. Im l. F. oben Triskeles. Das Ganze in einem flach vertieften Quadrat.
Class/status	Ancient Ruler's issue
Date	ca. 470-440 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 ; 9,74 g; 16x22 mm; 4 h
Production	struck
Secondary treatments	Chop mark
Region	Lykien
Country	Turkey
Publications	H. Dressel - K. Regling, Zwei ägyptische Funde altgriechischer Silbermünzen, ZfN 37, 1927, 132 Nr. 247 Taf. 5 (dieses Stück); J. Spier, Lycian coins in the ‘Deacadrachm hoard’, in: I. Carradice (Hrsg.), Coinage and administration in the Athenian and Persian empires. The Ninth Oxford Symposium on Coinage and Monetary History, April 1986, BAR 343 (Oxford 1987) 32 Taf. 6,1. Vgl. W. Müseler, Lykische Münzen in europäischen Privatsammlungen (2016) 84 f. Nr. II,30-II,34 (hier abweichende figürliche Rs.-Abb., ca. 470/440 v. Chr.).
Web Portals	http://coinhoards.org/id/igch1645 http://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/lycia_dynasts_hoff_2017_m44
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Accession	1902/710
Vendor (to Museum)	Giovanni Dattari
Find place	Egypt, Zagazig
Object number	18256197
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