Kenchreai Archaeological Archive: Co 1271 (Late Republican as of Corinth)

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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
Contributor Notes: 2012 (November 23): R. Weir studied, with reference to KenchreaiIII.
Contributor Notes: 2024: JLR described and identified coin.
Description: Reverse struck partly off top of flan.
Preservation description: 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, ↓ C̣ỌṚ[INTH]
Reverse Description: Bellerophon riding Pegasos to right, spearing Chimaera to lower right (traces)
Reverse Inscription: [Q C]AEC[IL NIGR] | C ḤẸ[IO PAM] | [II]ṾỊṚ
Belongs to Historical Period: Late Republican (Historical Period)
Material: Bronze (Material)
Has visual motif (depicts): Aphrodite/Venus (Visual Motif)
Has visual motif (depicts): Mythological Person (Visual Motif)
Has visual motif (depicts): Pegasos (Visual Motif)
Obverse Photograph
Reverse Photograph