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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Coin of Minerva
Minerva is often represented on gems and coins, hurling the thunderbolts of Jove. The following cut, so representing her, is from a silver coin of Antigonus Gona as itself copied from an ancient statue. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Coin of Perseus
Coin of Perseus, king of Macedonia. - Smith, 1882
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Coin of Philip V
Coin of Philip V., king of Macedonia. - Smith, 1882
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Coin of Rhodes
This illustration shows currency from the ancient city of Rhodes.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Coin of Seleucus
Coin of Seleucus. - Smith, 1882
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Corcyra Coin
Coin of Corcyra - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Damareteion
The coin was first struck in commemoration of the gold crown sent by the Carthagininians to Demarete. Weighs about 43 grams.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Damareteion
The coin was first struck in commemoration of the gold crown sent by the Carthagininians to Demarete. Weighs about 43 grams.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Drachma
The principal silver coin among the Greeks. The two chief standards in the currencies of the Greek states were the Attic and Aeginetan. - Smith, 1873. This image shows Attic Drachma.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Drachma
The principal silver coin among the Greeks. The two chief standards in the currencies of the Greek states were the Attic and Aeginetan. - Smith, 1873. This image shows Aeginetan Drachma.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Encased Coin
The surrounding of the punchmark with a band bearing a name, and the introduction of a head in its center, gradually led to the perfect reverse. There is a remarkable series of so-called 'encased' coins struck in Magna Graecia, of which...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ensis Falcatus
Four representations of men with ensis falcati.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Episemon
Episema were used in Greece as a symbol for a country, region, or used on a shield or badge. This episemon depicts a lion's head with a fish in its mouth.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Eretria Coin
Coin of Eretria - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Falx
A sickle; a scythe; a pruning knife or pruning hook; a bill; a falchion; a halbert. As culter denoted a knife with one straight edge, falx signified any simpiliar instrument the single edge of which was curved. By additional epithets the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Fasces
Rods bound in the form of a bundle, and containing an axe in the middle, the iron of which projected from them. These rods were carried by lictors before the superior magistrates at Rome, and are often represented on the reverse of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Grecian Coin
A coin used as currency by the ancient Greeks.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greek Coin
A Greek coin, with an elderly man on it.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greek Coin
In the reign of Philip of Macedon, the coinage of Greece had attained its full development, having a perfect reverse. One of the earliest specimens of the complete coin is a beautiful medal struck at Syracuse, with the head of Proserpine...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Head of Zeus Coin
An illustration of a coin depicting the face of Zeus.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Isthmian Crowns
The Nemian and Isthmian games occurred more frequently than the Olympic and Pythian. They were celebrated once in two years, the Nemian in the valley of Nemea between Phlius and Cleonae, and the Isthmian by the Corinthians, on their...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lampadephoria
Lampadedromia, torch-race, and often simply, Lampas, was a game common throughout Greece. At Athens we know of five celebrations of this game: one to Prometheus at the Prometheia, a second to Minerva at the Panametheia, a third to Vulcan...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lydian Coin
The obverse and reverse sides of one of the earliest coins.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lyre Coin
Lyre, with seven strings. From a coin of Chalcis. - Smith, 1882