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

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Amphiktyonen 336-334 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Galleries Altes Museum (temporarily closed) AM2/83a The Classical Period
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	League of Towns
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 ; 11,71 g; 25 mm; 6 h
Production	struck
Mint	Delphi
Region	Phokis
Country	Greece
Publications	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; E. J. P. Raven, The Amphictionic coinage of Delphi, Numismatic Chronicle 1950, 1 ff. 20 Stempel A/a (dieses Stück).
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Accession	1906 Löbbecke
previous Owner	Arthur Löbbecke
Object number	18208220
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