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Ancient Greek coinage. The earliest coinage of Athens, c.545 –525/515 BC. Archaic coin of Athens with effigy of Athena on the obverse, and olive sprig, owl and ΑΘΕ, initials of " Athens " on the reverse. c.510 –500/490 BC. The history of ancient Greek coinage can be divided (along with most other Greek art forms) into four periods: the ...
In ancient Greece, the drachma (Greek: δραχμή, romanized:drachmḗ, [drakʰmέː]; pl. drachmae or drachmas) was an ancient currency unit issued by many city-states during a period of ten centuries, from the Archaic period throughout the Classical period, the Hellenistic period up to the Roman period. The ancient drachma originated in the ...
The tetradrachm (Greek: τετράδραχμον, translit. tetrádrachmon) was a large silver coin that originated in Ancient Greece. It was nominally equivalent to four drachmae. [1] Over time the tetradrachm effectively became the standard coin of the Antiquity, spreading well beyond the borders of the Greek World. As a result, tetradrachms ...
Charon and Psyche (1883), a pre-Raphaelite interpretation of the myth by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope. Charon's obol is an allusive term for the coin placed in or on the mouth [ 1 ] of a dead person before burial. Greek and Latin literary sources specify the coin as an obol, and explain it as a payment or bribe for Charon, the ferryman who ...
An obol of the Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius, 12 mm in diameter. A 19th-century obol from the British-occupied Ionian Islands. The obol (Greek: ὀβολός, obolos, also ὀβελός (obelós), ὀβελλός (obellós), ὀδελός (odelós). lit. "nail, metal spit"; [1] Latin: obolus) was a form of ancient Greek currency and weight.
List of ancient Greek monetary standards. Tetradrachm of Alexander the Great on the Attic weight, 17.15 g. Cistophorus of Pergamum, ca. 123-100 BC, 12 g. Rhodian tetradrachm from ca. 316-305 BC, 15.13 g (Chian standard). Rhodian tetradrachm from 230-205 BC, 12.35 g (Rhodian standard). A wide variety of different monetary standards were used by ...
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