- Co 933 (Middle Hellenistic bronze coin of Athens) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Not after (date)
- -150
- Not before (date)
- -169
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Comparanda
- AgoraXXVI 86, p. 71, pl. 8 (J. Kroll)
- Comparanda
- Kleiner1976, p. 5, type 4, pl. 2
- Comparanda
- SvoronosPick19231926, pl. 103:50-56
- Description
- Flan is too small for type by up to 30%.
- Preservation comment
- Wear: G. Wide, deep lateral chip; extensive, moderate to severe pitting to cratering and sparse flaking. Wide, thin patches of white bronze disease on both faces.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIII, p. 17, no. 85 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Uncertain, Late Hellenistic and Hellenistic”)
- Axis (1-12)
- 11
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
- 13.0
- Numismatic Mint
- Athens
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 3.5
- Obverse Description
- Head of Demeter with hair rolled to right, wearing wheat wreath (traces)
- Reverse Description
- Piglet striding to right
- Reverse Inscription
- Above, ΑΘΕ (traces]
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Middle Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Ceres/Demeter (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Pig or Wild Boar (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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“Co 933 (Middle Hellenistic bronze coin of Athens).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/co0933>
