Co 526 (Early Hellenistic bronze coin of Knossos) [permalink] [show fewer 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

Reverse Photograph