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Tetradrachm of Gela with quadriga
Greek
Classical Period
460–430 B.C.
Mint: Sicily, Gela
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 24 mm. Weight: 17.22 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.447
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CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 0246.
DescriptionObverse: Quadriga left; horses walking; charioteer, beardless, in girdled chiton; in right hand goad and two reins, in left hand two reins.
In exergue, lizard horizontally left.
Border of dots.
Reverse: Forepart of man-headed river bull Gelas left, with beard, mustache, bull's horn and ear; hair on forehead and neck in wavy lines; right foreleg extended; truncation plain.
Inscription in Greek.
Round incuse.
In exergue, lizard horizontally left.
Border of dots.
Reverse: Forepart of man-headed river bull Gelas left, with beard, mustache, bull's horn and ear; hair on forehead and neck in wavy lines; right foreleg extended; truncation plain.
Inscription in Greek.
Round incuse.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Northwick Collection; 1859: Sotheby auction of the Northwick Collection, catalogue, no. 277 (acording to Brett); by date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 231); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren