Glass Coin of Athens Motif Ring (Amber Tone)

This handcrafted glass jewelry collection, by Michael Michaud, features motifs from an assortment of coins in the Getty Museum’s antiquities collection. Each piece captures the exquisite detail in vibrant cast glass, showcasing the original artistic quality of each ancient coin. Made exclusively for the Getty Museum. - Dimensions: 3/4 inch diameter- Materials: Glass, 24K gold plate, brass- Made in the USA - Item#:  117NThis coin is one of ten Athenian tetradrachms found in a hoard of coins, ingots, and jewelry discovered in 1967 on the Jordanian-Syrian border in the region of Hauran (near the ancient city of Bostra). The hoard contained coins from over twenty mints, the majority from four areas: Athens (31), Cyprus (21), southwest Asia Minor (15) and the Thrace-Macedonian area (13). The distribution and style of the Athenian coins date the hoard's burial to around 445 BCE. The Jordan hoard, and other examples of Greek coin hoards, speak to the circulation of Greek coins in the Near Eas