- Co 934 (Early-Middle Hellenistic bronze coin of Kos) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Cited by
- Walker1980, p. 219 (rev. KenchreaiIII)
- Comparanda
- BMCCaria Cos 86, p. 202
- Comparanda
- PatonHicks1891, p. 309, no. N 88
- Preservation comment
- Wear: P/G. Sparsely chipped edge with contiguous marginal cracking; somewhat sparse, slight pitting to cratering. Thin patches of white and pale green bronze disease on both faces.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIII, p. 17, no. 86 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Uncertain, Late Hellenistic and Hellenistic … (Cos?)”)
- Axis (1-12)
- 9
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
- 16.5
- Numismatic Mint
- Kos
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 2.04
- Obverse Description
- Head of young Herakles wearing lionskin to right
- Reverse Description
- Crab with club below
- Reverse Inscription
- Above, ΚΩΙΟΝ; between crab and club, Α[Ι]Σ[Χ]ΡΙΩΝ
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Early Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Middle Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Herakles/Hercules (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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“Co 934 (Early-Middle Hellenistic bronze coin of Kos).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/co0934>
