Tetradrachm - Aristomedes

Features

Issuer	Kyrene (Kyrenaica)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	435 BC - 375 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Asiatic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	13.08 g
Diameter	26 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 550559
References	BMC Greek# 93 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). , Müller Cyrénaique# 140-141 Christian Tuxen Falbe, Jacob Christian Linberg, Ludvig Müller; 1860. Numismatique de l'ancienne Afrique / Volume 1. Les monnaies de la Cyrénaique = Numismatics of ancient Africa. Imprimerie de Bianco Luno, Copenhagen, Denmark. , Bement# 1869 William S. Kundig (ed.); 1924. Collection Clarence S. Bement / Monnaies grecques antiques en or et en argent. Naville & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland (2 volumes). , Traité III# 1833 Ernest Babelon; 1914. Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines / Partie 2.3. Description historique: Comprenant les monnaies de la Grèce centrale et méridionale aux Ve et IVe siècles avant J.-C.. Éditions Ernest Leroux, Paris, France. , de Luynes# 3655 Jean Babelon, Louis Ciani (ed.), Jules Florange (ed.). Catalogue de la collection de Luynes - monnaies grecques. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France (4 volumes). , SNG Copenhagen# 1191 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes). , McClean# 9938 Sidney W. Grose. Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom (3 volumes).

Obverse

Laureate Head of Zeus-Ammon to right.

Script: Greek

Lettering: [ΑΡΙΣ] ΤΟΜΗΔΕΟΣ

Translation: of Aristomedes

Reverse

Silphium plant, legend ΚΥΡΑΝΑ or retrograde ΚΥΡΑ.

Script: Greek (retrograde)

Lettering:
Y ꓘ
P A

Translation: Kyrene

Mint

Cyrene, Cyrenaica, Libya

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (435 BC - 375 BC)							$ 46 000

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Examples of the type

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Picture 2 of the example of Tetradrachm - Aristomedes

Bement 1869

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BMC Greek (Cyrenaica) p. 22, 93

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de Luynes 3655

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Nomos AG Auction 16 Lot 154	10 May 2018	VF	USD 53 237.81 (CHF 42 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Nomos AG
	The New York Sale Auction 27 Lot 633	4 Jan 2012	VF	USD 30 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Adolph Hess AG, Auction 247, Lucerne, 29 June 1978, lot 209
© The New York Sale