Athens

2 Staters

Lead

Cast

Square

9.00 cm

9.00 cm

2.85 cm

Mass (g)	Mass (grain)	Date of measurement	Reference	fragmented	cleaned	reference weight
1720.00	-	-	Stavropoulos 1938	No	No	No
1716.30	-	April 23, 2018	Autopsy Louise Willocx	No	No	Yes

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche
Four spokes of wheel	Relief			One

Lightly worn

Lightly corroded

Autoptic examination:
Lead weight; square shape. Signs of wear and corrosion: chippings; small strokes, round ones on the letter O; cut on the lower left corner; little bumps and hollows; whitish. Folded and rounded corners; slightly rounded edges; very light hollow in the center on the reverse. On the obverse, depiction of four spokes of wheel in relief; the ends of the wheel are bigger on the edges. In the four corners (between the spokes), letters in relief: ΔΕMΟ.

Stavropoullos 1938:
Τετράμνουν Ἀττικὸν 5ου π. Χρ. αἰῶνος, φέρον τὸ γνωστὸν σταυροειδὲς κόσμημα (ἢ κνήμας τροχοῦ ἁμάξης κατὰ Σβορῶνον) καὶ διαγωνίως τὰ γράμματα Δ E M O. Γραμ. 1720.

Yes

Language	Technique	Legend type
		Mint

Δμό(σιον)

GREEK

FROM -500 TO -300

Stavropoullos 1938: 5th century BCE.

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Numismatic Museum (Athens)	None	without inv. num.

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
Stavropoulos 1938	21		7α