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Coin of Tarsos with seated Tyche and Kydnos
Greek
Hellenistic Period or later
about 164 B.C. or later
Mint: Cilicia, Tarsos
Medium/Technique
Bronze
Dimensions
Diameter: 24.5 mm. Weight: 16.09 gm. Die Axis: 11
Credit Line
Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Accession Number63.938
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
DescriptionObverse: Tyche seated to right holding poppy and corn ears.
At feet, river god Kydnos swimming right.
Inscription illegible.
Reverse: Zeus seated on throne to left holding Nike with wreath in right hand,
sceptre in left.
Inscriptions in Greek at left and right.
At feet, river god Kydnos swimming right.
Inscription illegible.
Reverse: Zeus seated on throne to left holding Nike with wreath in right hand,
sceptre in left.
Inscriptions in Greek at left and right.
ProvenanceBy 1963: with Hesperia Art, 2219 St. James Street, Philadelphia 3, Pa. (Hesperia Art Bulletin XXV, no. 169); purchased by MFA from Robert E. Hecht, Jr., June 19, 1963