Hemidrachm: Chimaera (obverse); Dove (reverse)
400–323 BC
Maker Unknown
Greek and Roman Art
Hemidrachm: Chimaera (obverse); Dove (reverse), 400–323 BC. Greek, minted at Sikyon (Peloponnesos). Silver; diameter: 1.7 cm (11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1917.979 The monstrous chimaera adds a goat head and snake-headed tail to the already fearsome lion.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Coins
- Formatted Medium
- silver
- Medium
- silver
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 1.7 cm (11/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: ΣΙ Translation: SI, indicates that this coin is from Sikyon Remark: Obverse Inscription: I Remark: Reverse
- Departments
- Greek and Roman Art
- Accession Number
- 1917.979
- Credit Line
- Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- Exhibitions
- Stories From Storage
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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