Drachm

Features

Issuer	Ambracia (Epeiros)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	165 BC - 146 BC
Value	Drachm (1)
Currency	Drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	3.65 g
Diameter	17 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 581048
References	BMC Greek# 1-4 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). , SNG Copenhagen# 21 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes). , HGC 3.1# 219 Oliver D. Hoover; 2016. Handbook of Coins of Macedon and Its Neighbors / Volume 3, Part 1. Macedon, Illyria, and Epeiros: Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom. , de Luynes# 1890 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 Newnham Davis# 181 Edward George Spencer-Churchill; 1936. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain) / Volume 1.2. The Newnham Davis Coins in the Wilson Collection of Classical and Eastern Antiquities: Marischal College, Aberdeen. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom. , SNG Lockett# 1647 Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, Richard Cyril Lockett. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume III - The Lockett Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (5 volumes). , Jameson# 1117 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes).

Obverse

Head of Dione right wearing a veil and stephane.

Reverse

Obelisk in a laurel wreath.

Script: Greek

Lettering: A M

Mint

Ambracia, Epirus, Greece

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (165 BC - 146 BC)							$ 450

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	CNG Electronic Auction 499 Lot 140	1 Sep 2021	VF	USD 400.00 (+ buyer's premium)
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	Numismatik Naumann GmbH Auction 33 Lot 89	5 Jul 2015	VF	USD 581.53 (EUR 500.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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