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Start Over Donor Joyce Stiefbold Gordon Culture or time period Old World (Africa, Asia and Europe) Accession number Acc.2642 Loans S1990-1991 #31: Blackhawk Museums (May 1, 1991–August 11, 1994)

1. Coin: ar tetradrachm

Museum number:
8-7576
Culture or time period:
Greek Hellenistic Period (323–30 BC) and Thracians (ca. 1000 BC-46 AD)
Object class:
Coins (money) and Tetradrachms
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:
1st-2nd century BC
Dimensions:
weight 16.84 grams and linear 31 millimeters
Collector:
Arthur Ernest Gordon and Joyce Stiefbold Gordon
Collection place:
Thasos, North Aegean, Greece
Person depicted:
Dionysus/Bacchus (Greek and Roman deity) and Heracles (Greek and Roman diety)