Co 498 (Early Hellenistic bronze coin of Athens) [permalink] [show fewer links]
Type
Inventoried Coin
Not after (date)
-270
Not before (date)
-284
Comment
Coin dated ca. 284-270s BC
Logical part of
Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
Typological identification
Coin
Comparanda
AgoraXXVI 55d-g, pp. 45-46, pl. 6 (J. Kroll)
Comparanda
SvoronosPick19231926, pl. 103:23, 27
Preservation comment
Wear: VG/G. Edge slightly snapped; extensive, slight to moderate pitting and sparse scratching and gouging. Wide patches of white bronze disease especially reverse.
Published as
KenchreaiIII, p. 16, no. 73 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Greek: Uncertain, Hellenistic and Late Hellenistic”)
Axis (1-12)
9
Numismatic Diameter (mm)
10.0
Numismatic Mint
Athens
Numismatic Weight (g)
1.23
Obverse Description
Triptolemos mounting winged chariot
Reverse Description
Piglet standing to right on slender mystic staff within wheat wreath
Reverse Inscription
Below, ΕΛΕΥ[ΣΙ]
Belongs to Historical Period
Early Hellenistic (Historical Period)
Material
Bronze (Material)
Has visual motif (depicts)
Religious Symbol or Object (Visual Motif)
Obverse Photograph
Reverse Photograph