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English: object type: Greek coin

- production technique: struck - issuing authority: city: Gela - ΓΕΛΑ - period / date: ca. 420-415 BC - material: silver - denomination: tetradrachm - weight: 17.20 gr - description obverse: charioteer driving quadriga, flying Nike crowning the horses - mintmark / additional symbol in exergue: heron - description reverse: forepart of river god (body of bull, face of bearded man) - inscription (Greek): ΓΕΛΑΣ - museum / inventory number: München, Staatliche Münzsammlung - 2013 temporarily on loan in: München, Staatliche Antikensammlung - bibliographic / online references: SNG München 5 (1977), 300

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