- KC069 (Middle Hellenistic bronze coin of Sikyon) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Not after (date)
- -200
- Not before (date)
- -250
- Comment
- JLR refined Weir 2022 (October 2024).
- Logical part of
- Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Comparanda
- BMCPeloponnesus Sicyon 204, p. 52
- Comparanda
- NemeaIII 1452-1459, p. 139, pl. 17 (R. C. Knapp and J. D. MacIsaac)
- Comparanda
- Warren1983, pp. 39-43, Group 4C.8, pl. 7
- Description
- Die slightly struck off flan to obverse bottom. Flan somewhat oversized for type.
- Preservation comment
- Wear: P. Extensive, slight pitting to incipient cratering; nicked edge; small, scattered patches of green bronze disease.
- Published as
- Weir2022, pp. 1125, 1126, no. 798, fig. 23.5
- Axis (1-12)
- 8
- Has denomination
- Chalkous
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
- 15.5
- Numismatic Mint
- Sikyon
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 2.71
- Obverse Description
- Dove flying to left
- Reverse Description
- Name of city within wreath tied above (thick leaves)
- Reverse Inscription
- ΣΙ (letters are compact with serifs and sigma has bent bars?)
- Chronology comment
- J. Warren (Warren1983, pp. 38, 41, n. 76) identifies Group 4C.8 in the “monumental style“ as the final issue of the type, which ranges ca. 330-200 BCE.
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Middle Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Bird (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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“KC069 (Middle 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/kc069>
