Hemidrachm Messene

Features

Issuer	Achaean League (Achaia)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	175 BC - 168 BC
Value	Hemidrachm (½)
Currency	Drachm
Composition	Srebro
Weight	2.35 g
Diameter	15.0 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 190651
References	BCD Peloponnesos# 723 Alan S. Walker; 2006. LHS Auction / Volume 96: The BCD Collection. Coins of Peloponnesos. LHS Numismatics, Zürich, Switzerland. , Clerk# 216 Malcolm George Clerk; 1895. Catalogue of the Coins of the Achæan League. Bernard Quaritch, London, United Kingdom. , McClean# 6496-6499 Sidney W. Grose. Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom (3 volumes). , SNG Copenhagen# 315 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes). , HGC 5# 597 Oliver D. Hoover; 2011. Handbook of Coins of the Peloponnesos / Volume 5: Achaia, Phleiasia, Sikyonia, Elis, Triphylia, Messenia, Lakonia, Argolis, and Arkadia : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom. , Benner# 20 Steve M. Benner; 2008. Achaian League Coinage of the 3rd Through 1st Centuries B.C.E.. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. , Agrinion# 323 Margaret Thompson; 1968. The Agrinion Hoard / Volume 159. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States.

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Obverse

Laureat z głową Zeusa w lewo Automatically translated

Reverse

Monogram Ligi Achajskiej między Ν i Φ z Μ poniżej Automatically translated

Script: grecki

Lettering:
Ν Φ
Μ

Mint

Messene, Peloponnesus, modern-day Ithomi, Greece

Comments

Clerk 216 (Megalopolis); McClean 6496-9 (Megalopolis).

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

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