- Co 515 (Middle-Late Hellenistic bronze coin of Mytilene) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Not after (date)
- -1
- Not before (date)
- -200
- Comment
- Coin dated 2nd-1st centuries BC
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Cited by
- Walker1980, p. 219 (rev. KenchreaiIII identified as Megara)
- Comparanda
- BMCTroas Lesbos 145-148, pp. 196-197, pl. XXVIII:21-22
- Preservation comment
- Wear: F+. Nicked edge; slightly delaminated surfaces. Small areas of pale blue bronze corrosion.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIII, p. 16, no. 74 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Uncertain, Late Hellenistic and Hellenistic … barbarous”)
- Axis (1-12)
- 6
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
- 16.0
- Numismatic Mint
- Mytilene
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 3.59
- Obverse Description
- Head of Artemis to right, with bow below and [arrows] behind; within dotted border
- Reverse Description
- Lyre
- Reverse Inscription
- To left and right, M–Y|T–I
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Late Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Middle Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Artemis/Diana (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Weaponry and Armor (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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“Co 515 (Middle-Late Hellenistic bronze coin of Mytilene).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/co0515>
