Sunday, September 08, 2024
A Coin from Pella
The British Museum has three
bronze coins from Pella in Macedonia, 168 BC. On the obverse is the head of Poseidon facing right; on the reverse is a standing bull facing right with ΠEΛ above and ΛHΣ below.
Here are illustrations of the three coins in the collection.
British Museum 1866-1201.954:
British Museum 1935-0619.41:
British Museum 1994,0915.10:
Here is another image of the same coin, from a dealer:
From another dealer:
I have a coin that looks very much like these (including the monograms in front of and between the bull's legs), a gift from my son.
See Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands, Bd. III, Abt. 2 = Hugo Gaebler, Die antiken Münzen von Makedonia und Paionia (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1935), p. 94 (Pella, 5, with Plate XVIII, 29).
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Here are illustrations of the three coins in the collection.
British Museum 1866-1201.954:
See Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands, Bd. III, Abt. 2 = Hugo Gaebler, Die antiken Münzen von Makedonia und Paionia (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1935), p. 94 (Pella, 5, with Plate XVIII, 29).
