Kenchreai Archaeological Archive: KC046 (Early-Middle Hellenistic bronze coin of Sikyon)

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Type: Inventoried Object
Not after (date): -200
Not before (date): -300
Comment: J. Warren (Warren1983, pp. 41-43) generally dates Group 4 chalkoi with the legend ΣΙ after those with Σ, and the serifs also indicate a late date in the range ca. 330-200 BCE. She speculates that historical events at the end of the 4th c. or around the second quarter of the 3rd c. might have occasioned the shift.
Comment: JLR revised Weir 2022 (October 2024).
Logical part of: Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification: Coin
Comparanda: NemeaIII 1432-1435, p. 138, pl. 17 (R. C. Knapp and J. D. MacIsaac)
Comparanda: Warren1983, pp. 38-43, Group 4C.3, pl. 7
Comparanda: Warren1998, p. 350, pl. 74:8, 9
Description: Die struck ca. 35% off flan to upper right obverse.
Preservation comment: Wear: G. Extensive incipient cratering and surficial cracking (especially reverse). Large patches of green bronze disease across both faces.
Published as: Weir2022, pp. 1124, 1125, no. 796, fig. 23.4
Axis (1-12): 5
Has denomination: Chalkous
Numismatic Diameter (mm): 14.0
Numismatic Mint: Sikyon
Numismatic Weight (g): 1.31
Obverse Description: Dove flying to left
Reverse Description: Name of city within wreath tied left (long, oval leaves and no berries?)
Reverse Inscription: Small ΣΙ (compact letters and sigma with slightly splayed bars and serifs)
Belongs to Historical Period: Early Hellenistic (Historical Period)
Belongs to Historical Period: Middle Hellenistic (Historical Period)
Material: Bronze (Material)
Has visual motif (depicts): Bird (Visual Motif)