Double Shekel

Greek
Sidon
Phoenicia
Asia Minor
Middle East

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384-370 BCE

Silver

Diameter: 1 1/8 in. (28.5 mm)

Weight: 24.8 g (0.1 lb.)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Arthur Fairbanks, Class of 1886, in memory of his father, Henry Fairbanks, Class of 1853

27.1.29627

Geography

Place Made: Eastern Mediterranean, Syria, West Asia, Asia

Period

1000 BCE-1 CE

Object Name

Coin

Research Area

Numismatics: Greek and Roman

Not on view

Inscriptions

Obverse: War galley left, with oars, below triple line of waves Reverse: King of Persia in chariot left, with charioteer; behind on foot, Egyptian King left.

Course History

CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022

Provenance

Arthur Fairbanks (1864-1944), Class of 1886; given to present collection, 1927.

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