CoinsGreek4th century BCE

Tetradrachm of Amphipolis

363 BCE - 362 BCE

Description

Obverse: Head of Apollo), laureate, three-quarter face r.; to r., panther l. Reverse: Raised frame within which race torch; all within incuse square; to l., A.

Classification

Coins

Technique

Struck

Medium

Silver

Culture

Greek

Period

Classical period, Late

Century

4th century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

14.28 g

Provenance

Found in Thessaloniki (1859) [1]. Gustave Billoin, Paris (by 1886), sold; [through Rollin & Feuardent, Paris, “Collection Billoin” sale, March 22-26, 1886, lot 326]. Hermann Weber [2], London (by 1918), sold; to [Spink, London]. William H. Woodward [3], London (by 1928-1941), sold; to [Spink, London (1941)]. [Jacob Hirsch, New York], sold; to Arthur Stone Dewing [4], Cambridge, MA (from 1945), lent; to Fogg Art Museum (from 1965) 1. Part of a hoard of 52 tetradrachms and drachms from Amphipolis (published as Inventory of Greek Coins Hoards, no. 368). According to the Dewing card, this coin was part of a hoard discussed by dealer Henri Hoffmann in Le Numismate: Bulletin périodique de numismatique, vol. 19 (May 1963) and by J. de Witte in Revue Numismatique (new series), vol. IX (1864), no. 88, but there is no illustration to verify. 2. Sir Hermann Weber (1823-1918). The coin was published in L. Forrer, The Weber Collection, vol. 2 (1924), no. 1964, pl.75. 3. William Harrison Woodward (1855-1941). This coin was published in Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, Ancient Greek Coins in the Possession of William Harrison Woodward (1928), no. 1964, no. 149, pl. X. 4. Arthur Stone Dewing (1880-1971). According to Dewing's inventory card, he purchased the coin from Jacob Hirsch via a letter dated October 15, 1945, for $3,050.