Kenchreai Archaeological Archive: Co 255 (Early-Middle Hellenistic hemiobol of Ptolemy III from Corinth with countermark)

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Type: Inventoried Coin
Not after (date): -222
Not before (date): -243
Logical part of: Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
Typological identification: Coin
Comparanda: Countermark: 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: AgoraXXVI 1007, p. 283, pl. 31 (J. Kroll)
Comparanda: CPtolEmpI.2 B407
Comparanda: Svoronos19041908, p. 155, no. 1000, pl. XXX:8
Preservation comment: Wear: P. Extensive, moderate pitting to incipient cratering.
Published as: KenchreaiIII, p. 101 appendix 3 (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): 20.0
Numismatic Mint: Corinth
Numismatic Weight (g): 6.19
Obverse Description: Countermark on neck in shallow incuse rectangle (5 mm): D D (thin letters, uneven)
Obverse Description: Laureate bust of king wearing aegis to right within dotted border
Reverse Description: Eagle with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt; behind, cornucopia (traces); within dotted border (traces)
Reverse Inscription: [ΠΤΟΛΕΜ]ΑΙΟΥ - ΒΑΣ[Ι]ΛΕΩΣ
Belongs to Historical Period: Early Roman (Historical Period)
Belongs to Historical Period: Late Hellenistic (Historical Period)
Belongs to Historical Period: Middle Hellenistic (Historical Period)
Material: Bronze (Material)
Has visual motif (depicts): Eagle (Visual Motif)
Obverse Photograph
Reverse Photograph