Object Title
Didrachm with Attendant Crowns Horse with Rider (obverse), Boy on Dolphin (reverse)
Measurements
13/16 × 3/4 in. (2.1 × 1.9 cm)
Creation Date
ca. 281-228 B.C.E.
Credit Line
Gift of Pitt and Barbara Hyde; 100 Gifts for 100 Years, 1916-2016
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
http://emuseum.brooksmuseum.org/view/objects/asitem/19943/28/title-asc?t:state:flow=970313b5-e681-4695-980c-02bee0ed3e22
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Antiquity: “The Ancient past, esp. the times preceding the Middle Ages”
Provenance Information
Estate of Dorothy Sturm, Memphis, Tennessee, 1988; Pitt and Barbara Hyde, Memphis, Tennessee, 2016
Exhibition Information
no known prior exhibitions
Publication Information
no known prior publications
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Cumulative facts and circumstances
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Although Dorothy Sturm began collecting in the 1960s or 70s, the Brooks has been unable to substantiate the precise date of acquisition of this and other coins in collection as they were acquired by the donor after her death in 1988. The coin greatly enhances the Brooks’ collection of Ancient art of the Mediterranean world.