Gold coin

Gold coin

Description:

1/20th stater.


Minted at Salamis by king Euagoras I. Obv.: head of Herakles to r. wearing lion's skin headdress. Rev.: goat's head to r. Linear borders. Axis 12.


Diameter: 3/16 × 1/16 in., 1.1g (0.5 × 0.1 cm, 1.1g)

Period:

Classical

Date:

391 - 380 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Cyprus

References:

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 3668, p. 398, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.3668