Tetradrachm (Coin) Depicting the Goddess Athena
530-490 BCE
- Medium
- Silver
- Classification
- Coin
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 2.3 cm (15/16 in.)
- Culture
- Greater Athens
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Credit line
- Gift of William F. Dunham
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The front (obverse) of this coin depicts the head of the goddess Athena, facing to the right. The back (reverse) depicts the owl of Athens with an olive twig in a square.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
