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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Antiquities| > |Antiquities by Type| > |Weights & Scales| > AA19866
Hammered Coin Weight (5.656g), Made From an Alexander the Great Bronze Coin
|Weights| |&| |Scales|, |Hammered| |Coin| |Weight| |(5.656g),| |Made| |From| |an| |Alexander| |the| |Great| |Bronze| |Coin|, Transformed in antiquity, probably for use as a weight. This coin weighs exactly 1/3 of an Attic tetradrachm, equal to a silver octobol. Similar coins are known to have been used as weights.
AA19866. Bronze Attic octobol weight, 5.656g, 24.4 x 9.6mm, aF, dark patina, obverse head of Herakles right, wearing Nemean Lion skin, scalp over head, forepaws tied at neck; reverse BA, bow-case and club; ex Phil DeVicchi collection; ex CNG auction XXIX (16 Mar 94), lot 1746; SOLD











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