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Hemidrachm

Features

Issuer Methymna (Lesbos)
Type Standard circulation coins
Years 350 BC - 240 BC
Value Hemidrachm (½)
Currency Drachm
Composition Srebro
Weight 2.78 g
Diameter 14.0 mm
Shape Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique Młotkowana
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
179393
References Franke Münzprägung# 13
Peter Robert Franke; 1975. Zur Münzprägung von Methymna. Hans Günter Buchholz, Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.
, SNG Munich 19# 706
Hans Roland Baldus; 1991. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Staatliche Münzsammlung München / Heft 19. Troas - Lesbos. Gebr. Mann, Berlin, Germany.
, HGC 6# 907
Oliver D. Hoover; 2010. Handbook of Coins of the Islands / Volume 6: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian Seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus) : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom.
, SNG Copenhagen# 352
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes).
, BMC Greek# 14
British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes).

Obverse

Głowa Ateny w hełmie po prawejAutomatically translated

Reverse

Kithara. Δ w prawym dolnym rogu i całość w kropkowanym kwadracie.Automatically translated

Script: grecki

Lettering: Δ

Mint

Mithymna, Lesbos, modern-day Mithymna, Greece

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ND (350 BC - 240 BC)  Photo $ 1800

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Examples of the type

Picture 1 of the example of Hemidrachm
© British Museum, G.4742
15 mm2.68 g 12h
BMC Greek (Troas, Aeolis, Lesbos) p. 179, 14
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Past sales

Pictures Sale Date Grade Sold price
Picture 1 of a sold Hemidrachm
Bertolami Fine Arts
Auction 109
Lot 116
Internet Archive
4 May 2022 XF USD 1726.90
(EUR 1500.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold Hemidrachm
The New York Sale
Auction 27
Lot 490
Internet Archive
4 Jan 2012 XF USD 1800.00
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold Hemidrachm
CNG
Auction 97
Lot 171
Internet Archive
17 Sep 2014 VF USD 1000.00
(+ buyer's premium)
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