- Co 310 (Late Roman bronze coin of Leo I from Antioch) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Not after (date)
- 474
- Not before (date)
- 457
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Comparanda
- RIC X Leo I 679, p. 293, pl. 26
- Comparanda
- LRBC II.2813, p. 103
- Description
- Unusual differential wear pattern, on same scale as lion-reverse, preserves pattern with vertical and diagonal bars, S above center, and O or loop below. Is this a shallow overstriking off-center to lower right? e.g. enwreathed monogram of Theodahad (534-536) on bronze issues from Ravenna. Cf. Kraus1928, pp. 143-144, Theodohad 12, 16, 17, pl. VIII; MIBI Ostrogoten 83, pp. 90, 131, pl. 41
- Published as
- KenchreaiIII, p. 57, no. 764 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Uncertain, Late Roman/Early Byzantine“)
- Axis (1-12)
- 12
- Has denomination
- AE4
- Numismatic Authority
- Leo I (eastern emperor, 457-474)
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
- 10.5
- Numismatic Mint
- Antioch on the Orontes
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 0.69
- Obverse Description
- Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust of emperor to right; within thin dotted border
- Obverse Inscription
- D N LE[O P]E AVG
- Reverse Description
- Apparent overstriking (q.v.)
- Reverse Description
- Lion crouching to left and turning head back to right; within thin dotted border
- Reverse Inscription
- Below between borders, [A]NT[A?]
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Late Roman (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Lion (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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“Co 310 (Late Roman bronze coin of Leo I from Antioch).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/co0310>
