Armenia Tetradrachm of Sparta Tetradrachm of Abdera Tetradrachm of Troy Tetradrachm of Kyme Tetradrachm of Rhegion Tetradrachm of Naxos Tetradrachm of Aetna...

made of silver, with the main currencies being the drachm and tetradrachm. The tetradrachm, which generally weighed around 16 g, was only minted in Seleucia...

Greek coins normally had distinctive names in daily use. The Athenian tetradrachm was called owl, the Aeginetic stater was called chelone, the Corinthian...

used. Donald Wiseman suggests two possibilities. They could have been tetradrachms of Tyre, usually referred to as Tyrian shekels (14 grams of 94% silver)...

Tyrian shekels, tetradrachms, or tetradrachmas were coins of Tyre. They also bore the Greek inscription ΤΥΡΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ (Týrou hierâs kai asýlou...

the common obverse of the Athenian tetradrachms after 510 BC and according to Philochorus, the Athenian tetradrachm was known as glaux (γλαύξ, little owl)...

of PERSIS. Vādfradād (Autophradates) II. Early-mid 2nd century BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 16.23 g, 11h). Istakhr (Persepolis) mint. Rezakhani, Khodadad...

Top left: Silver tetradrachm of Volusianus. From Antioch. Top right: Coin of the usurper Uranius Antoninus. From Emesa. Bottom left: Coin of Elagabalus...

Ptolemaic tetradrachm with the Eagle of Zeus, standing on a thunderbolt, on the obverse...

was based on a drachma of 4.3 g, but in practice the main coin was the tetradrachm of 17.2 g. Each drachma was divided into six obols of 0.72 g. It was...

the main coinage of the empire. Alexander minted gold staters, silver tetradrachms and drachims, and various fractional bronze coins. The types of these...

attributes of Eirene on Roman Imperial coins. For example, the reverse of a tetradrachm of Vespasian from Alexandria, 70-71 AD, shows Eirene standing holding...

now at Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Athena portrait by Eukleidas on a tetradrachm from Syracuse, Sicily c. 400 BC Mythological scene with Athena (left)...

A tetradrachm from Ancient Athens, dated circa 449-413 BC. Contains multiple 'test cuts' which was how fourrées were detected in antiquity. This coin...

to mint coins with both his portrait and his name. The reverse of his tetradrachms features a seated Heracles—from whom the Spartan kings claimed descent—perhaps...

Ptolemaic weight (about 14.2 grams) which was the weight of a Ptolemaic tetradrachm. This standard, which was not used elsewhere in the Hellenistic world...

Tetradrachm of Demetrius II Nicator, basileus of the Seleucid Empire...

Seleukos I Nikator Tetradrachm from Babylon...

War (398-393 BC). This coinage consisted solely of Attic weight silver tetradrachms (17.26 g), known as Series I (c. 410-390 BC), containing five separate...

Coin of Nero and Poppaea Sabina Billon tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt, 25 mm, 12.51 gr. Obverse: radiate head right; ΝΕΡΩ. ΚΛΑΥ. ΚΑΙΣ. ΣΕΒ. ΓΕΡ. ΑΥ...

Silver tetradrachm of Alexander the Great shown wearing the horns of the ram-god Zeus-Ammon....

successor to a male Ptolemaic ruler. Various coins, such as a silver tetradrachm minted sometime after Cleopatra's marriage with Antony in 37 BC, depict...

Seleukos I Nikator Tetradrachm from Babylon...

Hadrian. Four zuzim, denarii or drachmas make a shekel, a sela or a tetradrachm. Several different etymologies have been suggested for the word "zuz":...

Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst (Munich, Germany) Ancient Greek tetradrachm; 315–308 BC; diameter: 2.7 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art Ancient Greek...

A tetradrachm minted during the reign of Antigonus III Doson (r. 229–221 BC), possibly at Amphipolis, bearing the portrait image of Poseidon on the obverse...

valuable export throughout antiquity and today. Even the iconic Athenian tetradrachm coins had the leaves of the olive branch peeping to the left of Athena's...

after the Athenian model, and a papyrus on the right. Gold stater as a tetradrachm, with an owl on the left and an olive branch on the right, with the Demotic...

96. KINGS of PERSIS. Vādfradād (Autophradates) I. 3rd century BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 15.89 g, 9h). Istakhr (Persepolis) mint". www.cngcoins.com. "FRATARAKA...

Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia. pp. 258–59, fig. 454, Silver tetradrachm of Bagadates. Ashley, James R. (2004) [First published 1998]. "Appendix...