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Coin of Laodikeia with female head
Greek
Hellenistic Period
After 133 B.C.
Mint: Phrygia, Laodikeia
Medium/Technique
Bronze
Dimensions
Diameter: 20.5 mm. Weight: 7.01 gm. Die Axis: 1
Credit Line
Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Accession Number63.807
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
DescriptionObverse: Head to right wearing diadem and stephane (Aphrodite or Queen Laodice?).
Reverse: Double cornucopiae, containing corn and fruit, bound together by a fillet hanging down at left.
Inscription in Greek.
Reverse: Double cornucopiae, containing corn and fruit, bound together by a fillet hanging down at left.
Inscription in Greek.
ProvenanceBy 1963: with Hesperia Art, 2219 St. James Street, Philadelphia 3, Pa. (Hesperia Art Bulletin XXV, no. 21); purchased by MFA from Robert E. Hecht, Jr., June 19, 1963