Collection: Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Context: Akanthos
Material: Silver
Denomination: Tetradrachm
Actual Weight: 16.947
Die Axis: 0 degrees
Date: ca. 460 BC
Region: Macedonia
Period: Early Classical

Obverse Type: Quadripartite incuse square.

Date Description:

Following downdating necessitated by Asyut and the 'decadrachm' hoard, nearer 460 than early fifth century. See Price and Waggoner 1975, 40-42 and Price 1986, 46.

Commentary: The flan is cut