MK-WUE | Karien: Incertum 480-460 v. Chr.

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Karien: Incertum 480-460 v. Chr.
	Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum der Universität vault
Inventory no	Ka 1312 = H 6679
Obverse	Nackte männliche Gestalt mit Flügeln und Flügelschuhen im Knielaufschema n. l., linker Arm vor dem Körper erhoben, hinter rechtem Flügel Heroldsstab (Kerykaion); vor dem Kopf Monogramm.
Reverse	Zurückgewandter Löwe n. l., darüber karische Buchstaben und karisches Monogramm; alles in Quadratum Incusum.
Class/status	City
Date	480-460 v. Chr.
Denomination	Stater Stater Literally the resp. one unit. Hence designating the main unit within a certain currency of a Greek city or realm. The silver tetradrachm of Athens or the tridrachm of Corinth hence are also the stater within each denominational system. The main meaning though, especially in modern scholarship, is that of a denomination in gold of about 8.6 grams in the Attic standard.
	Silver ; 11,89 g; 22 mm; 1 h
Production	struck
Region	Karien
Country	Turkey
Publications	H.A. Troxell, Winged Carians, in: O. Mørkholm (Hrsg.), Greek numismatics and archaeology. Essays in honor of Margaret Thompson (Wetteren 1979), Nr. 41; E.S.G. Robinson, A find of archaic coins from Southwest Asia Minor, in: Numismatic Chronicle 5/16 (1936), Nr. 8.
Web Portals	http://hno.huma-num.fr/browse?idType=1576
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
previous Owner	Herbert Wellhöfer - 2016
Object number	ID620
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