Hemidrachm

Features

Issuer	Phaistos (Crete (ancient))
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	330 BC - 320 BC
Value	Hemidrachm (½)
Currency	Aeginetic drachm
Composition	Srebro
Weight	2.85 g
Diameter	15 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 475399
References	SvoronosCr# 42, 44 Ioannis Nikolaus Svoronos; 1890. Numismatique de la Crète ancienne. Protat frères, Paris, France. , Traité III# 1650 Ernest Babelon; 1914. Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines / Partie 2.3. Description historique: Comprenant les monnaies de la Grèce centrale et méridionale aux Ve et IVe siècles avant J.-C.. Éditions Ernest Leroux, Paris, France. , BMC Greek# 22 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). , SNG Lockett# 2595 Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, Richard Cyril Lockett. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume III - The Lockett Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (5 volumes). , Le Rider Crétoises# 72 Georges Le Rider; 1966. Monnaies Crétoises du Ve au Ier siècle av. J.-C = Cretan Coins from the 5th to the 1st Century BC. École Française d'Athènes, Paris, France.

Obverse

(en) Youthful head of Herakles to left.

Script: grecki (wsteczny)

Lettering: ΦΑΙΣ

Reverse

(en) Bull's head facing; border of dots or wreath.

Mint

Phaestus, Crete, Greece

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (330 BC - 320 BC)

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