- Co 526 (Early Hellenistic bronze coin of Knossos) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Not after (date)
- -250
- Not before (date)
- -308
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Comparanda
- Svoronos1890, p. 79, no. 104, pl. VI:26
- Description
- Even elliptical pit with sharp walls on reverse middle but broken away: vestige of incuse countermark?
- Preservation comment
- Wear: P/VG. Extensive destruction of edge, with chipping and oblique snapping, so that coin is reduced by up to half size; wide pitting and gouging on both surface leaves uneven surfaces. Thin, widespread patches of bluish white bronze disease on both faces.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIII, p. 13, no. 36 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Eretria(?), Fourth Century B.C.“)
- Axis (1-12)
- 5
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
- 12.0
- Numismatic Mint
- Knossos
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 1.45
- Obverse Description
- [Horned] head of Apollo Karneios to right
- Reverse Description
- Thunderbolt; [to left] and right middle, ✶ or ✷ (?); above and below star, name of city; all within dotted border (traces)
- Reverse Inscription
- [Κ-]Ν|[Ω-Σ] (traces)
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Early Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Apollo (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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“Co 526 (Early Hellenistic bronze coin of Knossos).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/co0526>
