- Co 788 (Early Hellenistic bronze coin of Athens) [permalink] [show fewer links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Not after (date)
- -270
- Not before (date)
- -284
- Comment
- Coin dated ca. 284-270s BC
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Comparanda
- Co 904
- Comparanda
- AgoraXXVI 55a-c, p. 45, pl. 6 (J. Kroll)
- Comparanda
- SvoronosPick19231926, pl. 103:23, 27
- Preservation comment
- Wear: P+. Slightly chipped edge at obverse axis 2; extensive, slight pitting and rare scratching. Thin patches of light blue bronze disease across both faces.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIII, p. 16, no. 81 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Uncertain, Late Hellenistic and Hellenistic”)
- Axis (1-12)
- 9
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
- 14.0
- Numismatic Mint
- Athens
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 2.75
- Obverse Description
- Triptolemos seated to left on winged chariot pulled by snakes (traces)
- Reverse Description
- Piglet standing to right on slender mystic staff within [wheat] wreath
- Reverse Inscription
- Below figure, Ε[ΛΕΥΣΙ]
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Early Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Mythological Person (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Pig or Wild Boar (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Religious Symbol or Object (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
-
- Reverse Photograph
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