Greek Silver Coins 

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Import Restricted since 2011.

Section I.B.7.b of Designated List in force since 2011.

Many of the mints of the listed coins can be found in B.V. Head, "Historia Numorum: A Manual of Greek Numismatics" (London, 1911) and C.M. Kraay, "Archaic and Classical Greek Coins" (London 1976). Many of the Roman provincial mints in Greece are listed in A. Burnett et al., "Roman Provincial Coinage I: From the Death of Caesar to the Death of Vitellius (44 B.C. - A.D. 69) (London, 1992) and id., "Roman Provincial Coinage: From Vespasian to Domitian (A.D. 69-96) (London, 1999).

Greek Silver Coins - This category includes the small denomination coins of the city-states of Aegina, Athens, and Corinth, and the Kingdom of Macedonia under Philip II and Alexander the Great. Such coins weigh less than approximately 10 grams and are known as obols, diobols, triobols, hemidrachms, and drachms. Also included are all denominations of coins struck by other city-states, leagues, and kingdoms that operated in the territory of the modern Greek state (including the ancient territories of the Peloponnese, Central Greece, Thessaly, Epirus, Crete, and those parts of the territories of ancient Macedonia, Thrace and the Aegean islands that lie within the boundaries of the modern Greek state). Approximate date: 6th century B.C. to late 1st century B.C.

Example shown:
Didrachm of the Macedonian King Archelaus depicting on the obverse a Macedonian horseman and on the reverse an aegagrus
Material: Silver; Period: 413-399 B.C.; Provenance: Unknown; Place of Production: Macedonia; Dimensions: diameter - 2.3 cm. / weight - 10.78 gram.
Archaeological Museum of Pella