Co 934 (Early-Middle Hellenistic bronze coin of Kos) [permalink] [show fewer links]

Type

Inventoried Coin

Not after (date)

-190

Not before (date)

-300

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

NemeaIII 1988, 1989, p. 171, pl. 26 (R. C. Knapp and J. D. MacIsaac)

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

Reverse Photograph