Search Results: Silver

A silver rhyton with a stag protome. Last quarter of 4th century BCE. From a Thracian workshop. (Vassil Bojkov Collection)

Silver rhyton with goat protome and death of Orpheus. 420-410 BCE (Vassil Bojkov Collection) Photographer: Marin Karavelov for the Thrace Foundation www.thracefoundation.org

This silver coin was minted in Kabul, modern-day Afghanistan, about 500-450 BCE. (The British Museum, London).

Silver coin issued by Tissaphernes (c. 420-395 BCE) in Persia. The obverse depicts a satrap while the reverse shows a lyre with seven strings.

The Silver Pavilion of the Zen temple complex Ginkaku-ji, Kyoto, Japan. LAte 15th century CE.

Silver kantharos with the death of Orpheus and the abduction of Helen. 420-410 BCE (Vassil Bojkov Collection) Photographer: Marin Karavelov for the Thrace Foundation www.thracefoundation.org

Silver penny of Alfred the Great (r. 871-899 CE), minted in Wessex. British Museum, London

Silver stater coin of Tarentum (modern Taranto), a Greek colony in southern Italy founded by Sparta. Taras riding a dolphin. 5th century BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Altamura, Italy)

Silver rhyton with a reclining Silenus. Late 3rd or early 2nd century BCE, Vassil Bojkov Collection. Photographer: Marin Karavelov for the Thrace Foundation www.thracefoundation.org

Silver dirham of the first Mamluk Sultan Aybak minted in Cairo in 1256 CE.