Tetradrachm

Features

Issuer Marathos (Phoenician cities)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 223 BC - 222 BC
Value Tetradrachm = 4 Drachm
Currency Drachm
Composition Silver
Weight 16.92 g
Diameter 29 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
200946
References HGC 10# 184
Oliver D. Hoover; 2010. The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series / Volume 10. Handbook of Coins of the Southern Levant : Phoenicia, Southern Koile Syria (Including Judaea), and Arabia : Fifth to First Centuries BC . Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania - London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

Turreted head of Tyche facing right.

Reverse

Naked Marathos sitting on the left on shields, his coat on his left arm, holding asphlaton with his right hand and a reed with his left hand. 37 and ST (in Aramaic) in exergue.

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΜΑΡΑΘΗΝΩΝ

Translation: From Marathos

Mint

Marathus, Phoenicia, modern-day Amrit, Syria

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (223 BC - 222 BC)  Aramaic year 37

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