{"id":14746,"date":"2026-04-19T02:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/rare-3rd-century-bc-athena-coin-found-in-berlin-field\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T02:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:34:15","slug":"rare-3rd-century-bc-athena-coin-found-in-berlin-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/rare-3rd-century-bc-athena-coin-found-in-berlin-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare 3rd-century BC Athena coin found in Berlin field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1301286\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/athena-320x200.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/athena.jpeg\" alt=\"Rare 3rd-century BC Athena coin found in Berlin field\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/athena-960x600.jpeg\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>[Ulrike Scheibe \/ Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum f\u00fcr Vor- und Fr\u00fchgeschichte]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>A rare 3rd\u2011century\u202fBC bronze coin depicting the goddess Athena was found in a field in Spandau, Berlin, marking the first discovery of its kind in the region. The 12\u2011millimeter coin was formally presented by Berlin\u2019s State Office for Monument Protection and has been on display at Petri Berlin since April\u202f15.<\/p>\n<p>Minted between 281 and 261\u202fBC in ancient Ilion (Troy), it shows Athena with a helmet and Athena Ilias holding a spear and spindle. The site also contains traces from the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman period and early Middle Ages. How the coin reached Berlin remains unknown, though ancient Mediterranean-Northern European links are known to have existed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/culture\/1301286\/rare-3rd-century-bc-athena-coin-found-in-berlin-field\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Ulrike Scheibe \/ Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum f\u00fcr Vor- und Fr\u00fchgeschichte] A rare 3rd\u2011century\u202fBC bronze coin depicting the goddess Athena was found in a field in Spandau, Berlin, marking the first discovery of its kind in the region. The 12\u2011millimeter coin was formally presented by Berlin\u2019s State Office for Monument Protection and has been &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Rare 3rd-century BC Athena coin found in Berlin field\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/rare-3rd-century-bc-athena-coin-found-in-berlin-field\/#more-14746\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rare 3rd-century BC Athena coin found in Berlin field\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/athena-960x600.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}