- Co 562 (Middle Hellenistic bronze coin of Illyrian Apollonia) [permalink] [show fewer links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Not after (date)
- -50
- Not before (date)
- -200
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Comparanda
- BMCThessaly 49, p. 59
- Comparanda
- SNGCopThessIllyr 401, pl. XII:9
- Preservation comment
- Wear: aVG. Nicking along obverse left edge. Extensive, slight pitting and flaking on both faces.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIII, p. 11, no. 7 (R. Hohlfelder; identified as “Ambracia, 238-168 B.C.“)
- Axis (1-12)
- 8
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
- 17.0
- Numismatic Mint
- Apollonia (Illyria)
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 3.61
- Obverse Description
- Laureate head of Apollo to right
- Reverse Description
- Obelisk of Apollo Agyieus on pedestal; to left and right inscription in two lines; within laurel wreath
- Reverse Inscription
- ΑΠΟ–ΛΛΩ|ΝΙΑ–ΤΑΝ
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Middle Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Apollo (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Religious Symbol or Object (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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