Co 933 (Middle Hellenistic bronze coin of Athens) [permalink] [show fewer 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)

Obverse Photograph

Reverse Photograph