- Co 1055 (Early Hellenistic bronze coin of Demeterios Poliorketes) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Not after (date)
- -283
- Not before (date)
- -300
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Comparanda
- Newell1927, p. 151, no. 171, pl. XVII.10 (“… Mint in Caria(?)”)
- Comparanda
- sim. AgoraXXVI 505, p. 188, pl. 24 (“Carian mint? after 300 B.C.“; J. Kroll)
- Preservation comment
- Wear: VF. Slightly nicked and chipped edge; extensive, minute to slight pitting. Speckling of white and pale blue bronze disease on obverse.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIII, p. 13, no. 34 (R. Hohlfelder)
- Axis (1-12)
- 9
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
- 15.0
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 2.58
- Obverse Description
- Laureate head of Poseidon to right
- Reverse Description
- Ship‘s prow to right; at right, dolphin; below, uncertain monogram
- Reverse Inscription
- Above, ΒΑ
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Early Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Dolphin (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Poseidon/Neptune (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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“Co 1055 (Early Hellenistic bronze coin of Demeterios Poliorketes).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2023. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/co1055>
