A guide to the Department of coins and medals in the British museum (1922)
British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals, Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London : The Trustees · leaf 21
k in the reign of Darius I, 521-485 b.c. [Fig. 2represents a later issue, about 400 b.c] 16 A Guide to the Bepartmenl of Coins and Medals I. B.—No. 7. A tetradrachm of Acanthus in Macedon of veryearly style, representing a lion devouring a bull {Pig. 3),interesting as bearing upon a passage of… … Fig. 3. Acanthus. Tetradrachm. Vlth Cent. B.C. lions and wild bulls with gigantic horns. The statement has beencalled in question, and the type may possibly be derived fromsome Eastern religious myth. I. B.—Nos. 27, 28. Two fine examples of the earliest tetra-drachms of Athens, dating from the…
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