- Co 605 (Late Hellenistic bronze coin of Athens) [permalink] [show fewer links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Not after (date)
- -39
- Not before (date)
- -42
- Comment
- Coin dated 42/1-39 BC
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Comparanda
- AgoraXXVI 138, pp. 101-102, pl. 12 (period 4B; J. Kroll)
- Comparanda
- BMCAttica 566–569, p. 83 (dated 2nd c. BC)
- Comparanda
- SvoronosPick19231926, pl. 80:1-7
- Preservation comment
- Wear: G/aVG. Sparse, slight pitting and scratching on reverse especially. Incipient white to pale blue bronze disease.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIII, p. 12, no. 22 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Athens, Second Century B.C.“)
- Axis (1-12)
- 10
- Has denomination
- Reduced-AE1
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
- 19.0
- Numismatic Mint
- Athens
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 8.19
- Obverse Description
- Head of Athena in crested Athenian helmet to right
- Reverse Description
- Tripod-lebes; to left, poppy-head; to right; thunderbolt
- Reverse Inscription
- Α–ΘΕ
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Late Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Athena/Minerva (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Religious Symbol or Object (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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