KC053 (Early-Middle Hellenistic bronze coin of Sikyon) [permalink] [show fewer links]

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 but observes a period of overlap. 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.

Logical part of

Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila

Typological identification

Coin

Comparanda

BCDPeloponnesos 317.7, pp. 90-91

Comparanda

NemeaIII 1438-1442, p. 138, pl. 17 (R. C. Knapp and J. D. MacIsaac)

Comparanda

Warren1983, pp. 38-43, Group 4C.5, pl. 7

Comparanda

Warren1998, p. 350, pl. 74:8, 9

Preservation comment

Wear: VG/G. Somewhat sparse, deep pitting to incipient cratering. Small spots of green to light greenish brown bronze disease.

Published as

Weir2022, pp. 1124-1125, no. 797, fig. 23.4

Axis (1-12)

3

Has denomination

Chalkous

Numismatic Diameter (mm)

13.0

Numismatic Mint

Sikyon

Numismatic Weight (g)

1.34

Obverse Description

Dove flying to right

Reverse Description

Name of city within wreath tied below (elongated leaves and no berries?)

Reverse Inscription

ΣΙ (spaced letters without serifs and sigma has parallel bars)

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)