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Coin of Sardis, Lydia

Obv.: Head of City goddess, veiled and turreted to r. Rev.: Zeus Lydios standing to l. holding eagle in extended right hand and resting on long scepter with l.

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics [Colosseum Coin Exchange Inc. Hazlet NJ]? sold; to Jane Ayer Scott Newton MA (by 2008) by inheritance; to her husband Wellington F. Scott III (2008-2010) gift; to The Harvard Art Museums 2010. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Wellington F. Scott III in memory of Jane Ayer Scott

133 BCE - 100 CE 2nd century BCE-1st century CE Hellenistic period -133 100

Greek

Title: Coin of Sardis, Lydia

Description:

Obv.

: Head of City goddess, veiled and turreted to r.

Rev.

: Zeus Lydios standing to l.

holding eagle in extended right hand and resting on long scepter with l.

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Obv.: Bearded male figures (Demos of Pergamon, Demos of Sardis) in himatia, standing, facing each other. One is crowning with r. hand the other, standing on l., with arms wrapped i...