Medallion with Alexander the Great

ca. 215-243 CE (Imperial Roman)

0.8 cm 5.3 cm

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Together with Walters 59.2 and 59.3, this piece was discovered in Egypt as part of a hoard that comprised about twenty similar medallions (now dispersed among various museums), eighteen gold ingots, and six hundred gold coins issued by Roman emperors from Severus Alexander (r....

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[Discovered at Aboukir, Egypt, in 1902]; Panayotis Kyticas, Cairo, by purchase; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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