Advanced Search 
View: Obverse
Tetradrachm of Gela with quadriga
Greek
Classical Period
460–430 B.C.
Mint: Sicily, Gela
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 27 mm. Weight: 16.37 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.443
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 0245.
DescriptionObverse: Quadriga right, horses walking; in background, Ionic column (goal post); charioteer, beardless, in girdled chiton; in extended right and left hands, reins; ground line. Border of dots.
Reverse: Forepart of man-headed river bull Gelas right, with beard, mustache, bull's horn and ear; on neck, laurel branch downwards; truncation dotted.
Inscription in Greek.
Round incuse.
Reverse: Forepart of man-headed river bull Gelas right, with beard, mustache, bull's horn and ear; on neck, laurel branch downwards; truncation dotted.
Inscription in Greek.
Round incuse.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 225); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren