- Co 1150 (Middle Roman bronze coin of the Macedonian League) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Not after (date)
- 244
- Not before (date)
- 238
- Comment
- Coin issued later in the second neocorate of the Macedonian League during the Roman Empire, or under the reign of Gordian III. Very rare issue; one came up at auction in 2015, one in Numismatic Museum in Athens.
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Comparanda
- RPC VII.2, 259
- Comparanda
- AMNGIII 721a, p. 163
- Preservation comment
- Wear: F. Dense minute pitting; large patches of white and pale blue bronze disease.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIII, p. 27, no. 276 (R. Hohlfelder)
- Axis (1-12)
- 12
- Numismatic Authority
- Gordian III (238-244)
- Numismatic Authority
- Macedonian League
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
- 27.0
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 12.5
- Obverse Description
- Head of Alexander the Great to right, wearing lion skin; within dotted border
- Obverse Inscription
- ΑΛⲈΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ; below head, ✶
- Reverse Description
- Olympias as Hygieia seated to left on cushioned throne with canopy(?), holding patera in outstretched hand and feeding coiled snake rising from cista; within dotted border
- Reverse Inscription
- ΚΟ[ΙΝΟ]-Ν - ΜΑΚⲈΔΟΝΙΩΝ Δ[ΙΣ ΝⲈΟ]-ΚΟΡΩΝ
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Middle Roman (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Alexander III (king of Macedon, 336-323 BCE)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Olympias (queen of Macedonia, ca. 357–316 BCE)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Religious Symbol or Object (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Snake (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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“Co 1150 (Middle Roman bronze coin of the Macedonian League).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/co1150>
