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The coinage of Carthage was first minted from the 5th century BCE. Initially adopting the drachma, the Carthaginians later minted silver shekel coins. Designs were instantly recognisable, as intended, and included famous figures such as Hannibal...

Top row (L to R): - Silver drachm from Corcyra (Corfu), 229-48 BCE. O: Head of Dione. R: Pegasus. - Silver didrachm from Rhodes, Caria, 304-166 BCE. O: Head of Helios. R: Rose. - Silver stater from Calymna, Caria, 600-550 BCE. O: Male...

Top row (L to R): Thera (c. 500 BCE) - Silver stater, two dolphins. Delos (6th century BCE) - Silver drachm, lyre. Siphnos (540-500 BCE) - Silver stater, eagle. (Alpha Bank Numismatics Museum, Kerkyra, Corfu) Bottom row (L to R...

Silver. Weight: 10 gr., 10,1 gr., 11,3 gr., 11,4 gr. – Persian stater; 7,9 gr., 8,1 gr., 8,6 gr., 8,6 gr., 9,4 gr. (?) – Attic didrachm.

 d= 17/20-20/21 mm.

 Obverse: Lying hermaphrodite lion to the right/left with a head turned back.

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Money may take many forms, from the digital code of cryptocurrency to the woodpecker scalps favoured in early California. People have also used cattle, cacao beans, cowrie shells, chewing gum, grain, and giant stones as money. Early cultures...

Ptolemaic Egypt rapidly established itself as an economic powerhouse of the ancient world at the end of the 4th century BCE. The wealth of Egypt was owed in large part to the unrivalled fertility of the Nile, which served as the breadbasket...

Top row (L to R): Cos (300-190 BCE) Silver tetradrachm, crab. Syracuse (c. 400 BCE) - Silver decadrachm, head of Arethousa with dolphins. Macedon (306-283 BCE) - Silver tetradrachm, Poseidon with trident. Bottom row (L to R): Euboea...

Two coins issued by Ptolemy I: 1) A portrait of the deified Alexander the Great wearing an elephant scalp on his head, with a ram’s horn over his temple, and an aegis (sacred fleece) over his shoulder; on the reverse Athena Alcidemus, the...

One side of this heavy weight is inscribed in Aramaic with "correct according to the stater of silver". This probably refers to the use of a weight standard based on the silver coins known as staters. This object weighs just over 31 kg, which...

The reverse of a 2nd Century - 1st Century BCE gold stater minted in Gaul. This side depicts a man riding a chariot which is being pulled by a horse with a stylized human face. From the British Museum in London.