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Ionia Electrum Twenty-Fourth Stater
c. 625–550 BC
One of the collection’s earliest objects, this minute Ionian electrum fraction preserves the abstract geometry from which struck coinage emerged.
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Philip III Arrhidaios Gold Stater
323–317 BC
Struck after Alexander the Great, this stater preserves Macedonian authority through Athena’s disciplined profile and Nike’s promise of victory.
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Agathokles of Syracuse Electrum Coin
317–289 BC
Apollo and his sacred tripod give this small electrum coin the cultural confidence of Syracuse under its ambitious soldier-ruler Agathokles.
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Mithradates VI Gold Stater
120–63 BC
Mithradates VI adopts the idealised image of Alexander while Athena enthroned turns inherited Hellenistic imagery into a claim of Pontic kingship.
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Brutus and the Koson Gold Stater
44–42 BC
Issued amid the Roman Republic’s final civil wars, this enigmatic Balkan gold coin turns ancestral virtue and the eagle of power into political imagery.
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