- Co 395 (Early Hellenistic bronze coin from Carthage with countermark) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Not after (date)
- -250
- Not before (date)
- -300
- Comment
- Coin dated early-mid-3rd century BC
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Typological identification comment
- This type is believed to have been minted on Sardinia.
- Comparanda
- AgoraXXVI 429, p. 173, pl. 22 (J. Kroll)
- Comparanda
- SNGCopAfr Zeugitania: Carthage 151
- Preservation comment
- Wear: P. Extensive, minute pitting, scratching, and fissuring. Large patches of white to light blue bronze disease.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIII, p. 101 (R. Hohlfelder identified in Appendix 3 as “D D Tessera“)
- Axis (1-12)
- 3
- Numismatic Mint
- Carthage
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 5.14
- Obverse Description
- Head of Persephone to left; behind head, ★ (?)
- Reverse Description
- Countermark to center right in shallow incuse rectangle (6 mm): O-C (uncertain; bold letters)
- Reverse Description
- Horse head to right; within dotted border (traces)
- Reverse Inscription
- To lower right, small o
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Early Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Horse or Donkey (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Persephone/Kore/Proserpina (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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“Co 395 (Early Hellenistic bronze coin from Carthage with countermark).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/co0395>
