- Co 160 (Early-Middle Hellenistic hemiobol of Ptolemy III from Corinth with countermarks) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Not after (date)
- -222
- Not before (date)
- -243
- Comment
- RW, JLR: Middle-denomination bronze coins of Ptolemy III occur not uncommonly at sites in the northastern Peloponnese. C. C. Lorber (CPtolEmpI.2) has identified this hemiobol type as an issue of Corinth.
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Comparanda
- AgoraXXVI 1007, p. 283, pl. 31 (J. Kroll)
- Comparanda
- Countermarks: sim. Howgego1985, pp. 4, 222, no. 589, pl. 23 (DD possibly related to DDCO=decreto decurionum Corinthiorum?; Early Roman, from Isthmia, IC 759), pp. 188-189, nos. 431, 432, pl. 17 (Augustus, Imbros; Tiberius, Aegina?).
- Comparanda
- CPtolEmpI.2 B407
- Comparanda
- Svoronos19041908, p. 155, no. 1000, pl. XXX:8
- Description
- Centering dimple on obverse.
- Preservation comment
- Wear: host P, ctmk F. Well rounded edges; extensive, dense, minute pitting; one deep fissure extending from edge at reverse axis 1. Traces of pale blue bronze disease at deepest points on both faces.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIII, p. 100, Appendix 3 (not catalogued; R. Hohlfelder identified as “D D tessera“)
- Axis (1-12)
- 12
- Has denomination
- Hemiobol
- Numismatic Authority
- Ptolemy III Euergetes (king of Egypt, 246-221 BCE)
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
- 21.0
- Numismatic Mint
- Corinth
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 6.1
- Obverse Description
- Countermark in deep incuse rectangle (6.5 mm), perpendicular line extending out to edge: D D
- Obverse Description
- Laureate bust of king wearing aegis to right (characteristic profile); within dotted border (traces)
- Reverse Description
- Countermark, shallow incuse: star of six or eight rays, some as chevrons
- Reverse Description
- Eagle with closed wings standing to left on thunderbolt; behind, cornucopia wrapped in diadem (traces); within dotted border (traces)
- Reverse Inscription
- ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ - ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ (traces)
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Early Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Early Roman (Historical Period)
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Middle Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Eagle (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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“Co 160 (Early-Middle Hellenistic hemiobol of Ptolemy III from Corinth with countermarks).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/co0160>
