- gold. The New
Testament mentions both
didrachma and, by implication,
tetradrachma in
context of the
Temple tax. Luke's
Gospel includes a
parable told by...
-
Tyrian shekels, tetradrachms, or
tetradrachmas were
coins of Tyre,
which in the
Roman Empire took on an
unusual role as the
medium of
payment for the...
- On a
Tetradrachma of Athens,
struck c. 490 BC, the head of Athena, (left), is
regarded as the
obverse because of its
larger scale and
because it is a portrait...
-
Kenneth W. Harl "Livy and the Date of the
Introduction of the
Cistophoric Tetradrachma," Cl****ical
Antiquity Vol. 10, No. 2 (1991), page 269
Money portal Cistophorus...
-
beginning of the 3rd
century BC. The
money here was
silver drachma and
tetradrachma on
behalf of
Alexander the Great,
minted in Syria,
Mesopotamia and Asia...
-
there is a long-handled axe. This
tripod was
originally used on the
tetradrachma coin,
dating from the
period 356-345 B.C. The
other side of the coin...
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which included 149
Nabataean drachmas, 51
imperial dinars and 33
tetradrachmas of Trajan. Most of the
coins were
minted in Antioch. The
spindle whorls...