Hemidrachm Messene

Features

Issuer	Achaean League (Achaia)
Period	Second Achaean League (280 BC - 146 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	175 BC - 168 BC
Value	Hemidrachm (½)
Currency	Drachm
Composition	Srebro
Weight	2.27 g
Diameter	16.0 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 153434
References	BCD Peloponnesos# 722.8 Alan S. Walker; 2006. LHS Auction / Volume 96: The BCD Collection. Coins of Peloponnesos. LHS Numismatics, Zürich, Switzerland. , SNG Copenhagen# 317 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes). , Clerk# 297 Malcolm George Clerk; 1895. Catalogue of the Coins of the Achæan League. Bernard Quaritch, London, United Kingdom. , Benner# 14 Steve M. Benner; 2008. Achaian League Coinage of the 3rd Through 1st Centuries B.C.E.. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Obverse

Laureat z głową Zeusa w prawo Automatically translated

Reverse

(en) ΑΧ monogram with ΑΧΡ monogram above, Μ below and all within wreath

Script: grecki

Lettering:
ΑΧΡ
ΑΧ
Μ

Mint

Messene, Peloponnesus, modern-day Ithomi, Greece

Comments

(en)

Clerk 297 (Megalopolis).

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (175 BC - 168 BC)

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