Co 160 (Early-Middle Hellenistic hemiobol of Ptolemy III from Corinth with countermarks) [permalink] [show fewer 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
Reverse Photograph