Quarter Stater: Tree (obverse); Plain Field (reverse)
Unknown Artist
c. 125–20 BCE
Medium
gold
Dimensions
diam. 1 cm
Classification
Coins
Department
Medieval Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
The Norweb Collection
Accession Number
1969.144
About this artwork
The smaller size of the quarter stater left the artist little room for design. Apparently he was unable to reduce the stater design to such small dimensions. The meaningless jumble is probably part of a larger design.