Hemidrachm

Greek
Argos

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468-421 BCE

Silver

Diameter: 9/16 in. (13.8 mm)

Weight: 3.18 g

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

27.1.29638

Geography

Place Made: Greece, Europe

Period

1000 BCE-1 CE

Object Name

Coin

Research Area

Numismatics: Greek and Roman

Not on view

Inscriptions

Obverse: Forepart of a wolf at bay left, paws extended Reverse: A in shallow incuse square, in upper part of which two deeper incuses; incuse marks have no texture

Provenance

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

Catalogue Raisonne

BMC p. 136 pl. XXVII/1-4

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