Coin Depicting Two Calves Heads
550-440 BCE
- Medium
- Silver
- Classification
- Coin
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 1.3 cm (9/16 in.)
- Culture
- Sámos
- 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
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The front (obverse) of this coin depicts two calves heads facing each other. The back (reverse) depicts an incuse square quartered diagonally.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
