Silver tetradrachm coin with the silphium plant (obverse) and a head (reverse), Cyrene, 435 – 375 BC, 13.29 g.

Coins

Material: Metals | Type: Currency/Medals/Postage stamps | Countries: Libya

  • Period

    1st millennium BC – AD 1551

  • Red List

    Emergency Red List – Libya

Category

Coins
Copper, bronze, silver or gold.

Graeco-Roman period: With portraits of royals, deities standing or sitting, animals or silphium plant and Greek or Latin inscriptions surrounding different motifs.

Islamic Era: Dinars with Arabic inscriptions inside a circle or square, may be surrounded with symbols
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