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Ammonite fossil portrayed on an ancient Greek countermarked coin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mark A.S. McMenamin
Mark A.S. McMenamin*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Geography, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075, USA
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Extract

The image on a Greek coin of the second-first century BC is identified as an ammonite fossil and linked to the eponymous Ammon, the Egyptian ram-headed god.

Keywords

Classical GreeceAmmoncoinagefossils
Type
Research Article
Information
Antiquity , Volume 81 , Issue 314 , 1 December 2007 , pp. 944 - 948
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2007

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