Tetradrachm; Shekel

Greek
Tyre
Phoenicia

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after 126 BCE

Silver

Diameter: 1 3/16 in. (30.1 mm)

Weight: 14.11 g

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

27.1.29637

Geography

Place Made: Greece, Europe

Period

1000 BCE-1 CE

Object Name

Coin

Research Area

Numismatics: Greek and Roman

Not on view

Inscriptions

Obverse: Head of Melquarth right Reverse: [inscription] eagle standing left, palm over shoulder, in field AK and [inscription] club left.

Provenance

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

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