Coin Depicting a Horse and Palm Tree
3rd century BCE
- Medium
- Bronze
- Classification
- Coin
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 1.7 cm (11/16 in.)
- Culture
- Carthage
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Credit line
- Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The front (obverse) of this coin depicts a female head, facing left, with a triple drop earring, necklace and wreathed. The back (reverse) of this coin depicts a horse standing to the right, date palm. Pellet to left.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
