- Co 1271 (Late Republican as of Corinth) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Not after (date)
- -31
- Not before (date)
- -34
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Typological identification
- RPC I, no. 1128
- Comparanda
- Co 401, Co 1030, Co 1044
- Comparanda
- Amandry1988, pp. 130, 136-138, émission VIc
- Comparanda
- BMCCorinth 496, 497, p. 60, pl. XV:7
- Description
- Reverse struck partly off top of flan.
- Preservation comment
- Wear: P/aG. Extensive, minute pitting and rare pitting. Attrition around edges and faces has reduced diameter and weight. Wide areas of thin, white and pale green bronze disease on both faces.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIII, p. 105 (R. Hohlfelder in Appendix 3 identified as “Tessera?“)
- Axis (1-12)
- 9
- Has denomination
- As
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
- 20.0
- Numismatic Issuer
- C. Heius Pamphilus (Corinthian duovir, 34-31, 27/6 or 26/5, and 17/16 BCE)
- Numismatic Issuer
- Q. Caecilius Niger (Corinthian duovir, 34-31 BCE)
- Numismatic Mint
- Corinth
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 4.83
- Obverse Description
- Head of smiling Aphrodite to right, hair tied back with taenia and falling loosely behind
- Obverse Inscription
- Behind head, COR[INTH]
- Reverse Description
- Bellerophon riding Pegasos to right, spearing Chimaera to lower right (traces)
- Reverse Inscription
- [Q C]AEC[IL NIGR] | C HE[IO PAM] | [II]VIR
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Late Republican (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Aphrodite/Venus (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Mythological Animal (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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“Co 1271 (Late Republican as of Corinth).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/co1271>
