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Countermarked tetradrachm of Alexander the Great, Perge
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Obverse: Head of young Heracles, facing right, wearing lionskin headdress
Reverse: Zeus seated on throne l. holding eagle and scepter; to l., monogram K[ (Greek kappa digamma; 26); to r., anchor countermark.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Mrs. H. Bartlett Wells
Title: Countermarked tetradrachm of Alexander the Great, Perge
Description:
Obverse: Head of young Heracles, facing right, wearing lionskin headdress
Reverse: Zeus seated on throne l.
holding eagle and scepter; to l.
, monogram K[ (Greek kappa digamma; 26); to r.
, anchor countermark.
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