- KC064 (Late Hellenistic bronze coin of Sikyon) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Not after (date)
- -50
- Not before (date)
- -100
- Comment
- JLR revised Weir 2022 (October 2024).
- Logical part of
- Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Comparanda
- BMCPeloponnesus Sicyon 236, 237, p. 55
- Comparanda
- CorinthVI 322, p. 53
- Comparanda
- MacIsaac1987, p. 111, no. 132 (Theater Area, Corinth)
- Comparanda
- Warren1984, pp. 19-22, Group 12.7b, pl. 3
- Comparanda
- sim. NemeaIII 1547, p. 144, pl. 18
- Preservation comment
- Wear: G. Extensive abrasion across surface, reducing original weight; widespread, minute pitting; rounded edge.
- Published as
- Weir2022, pp. 1125, 1126, no. 799, fig. 23.5
- Axis (1-12)
- 7
- Has denomination
- Tetartemorion
- Has denomination
- Trichalkon
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
- 16.0
- Numismatic Issuer
- Apollonius (Late Hellenistic Sicyonian)
- Numismatic Mint
- Sikyon
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 3.01
- Obverse Description
- Laureate head of Apollo with hair hanging thickly down neck to right
- Reverse Description
- Large dove alighting to left; name of megistrate read upwards along top edge of wing and downwards along bottom edge of wing
- Reverse Inscription
- ΑΠΟ[ΛΛ-Ⲱ]ΝΙΟ[Υ]
- Chronology comment
- Coin dated 1st century BC-second quarter? at Warren1998, pp. 358-359. J. Warren (Warren1984, pp. 21-22) suggests that the denomination of this type could have been quarter-obol or trichalkon.
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Late Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Apollo (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Bird (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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“KC064 (Late Hellenistic bronze coin of Sikyon).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2025. <http://kenchreai.org/gaek/kc064>
