Co 395 (Early Hellenistic bronze coin from Carthage with countermark) [permalink] [show fewer 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

Reverse Photograph