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