Record ID: CORN-132899
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver tetradrachm of Alexander III (356-323 BC), posthumous issue dating to c. 311-305 BC. Mint of Babylon.  Obverse: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin Reverse: BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY; Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre Mintmark: MI and sickle - // monogram in wreath (under throne) Price M, J. , The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus (1991), p. 479, cf. no. 3768
Created on: Wednesday 28th July 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Minver Lowlands CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-1A2BB4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Contemporary copper alloy copy of a silver Greek Owl Type A tetradrachm, with head of Athena on obverse and owl on reverse, minted in Athens c.454-431 BC. Coins like these are known and assumed to be contemporary forgeries, originally with silver plating, which has now worn off. These copies are usually described as 'money of necessity' and are associated with the fall of Athens to Sparta at the end of the Peloponnesian War, c.406 BC. There are references in Aristophanes to the use of bronze and scholars have speculated that these coins were produced officially with a bronze core a…
Created on: Monday 4th April 2016
Last updated: Friday 16th September 2016
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Record ID: CORN-304E45
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Alexandrian tetradrachm, c.AD 14-250, probably 1st-2nd century AD
Created on: Monday 22nd February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-0244F2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy tetradrachm of Diocletian Struck at Alexandria, AD 285-6 Ref. BMC Greek, Alexandria, p. 327, no. 2532
Created on: Tuesday 6th May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-C460B1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Billon tetradrachm (AE 19) of Alexandria, minted in the second year of the reign of Maximian I (AD 286-305), c.AD 286-7
Created on: Saturday 18th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-3A5788
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Tetradrachm of Alexandria, struck during the 3rd year of the reign of Claudius II (AD 270-271).
Created on: Friday 4th February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B5B026
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Tetradrachm of Alexandria, struck during the 2nd year of the reign of Claudius II(AD 268-269).
Created on: Wednesday 19th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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