- Co 1271 (Late Republican as of Corinth) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Typological identification
- RPC I, no. 1128
- Comparanda
- Amandry1988, pp. 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 Weight (mm)
- 20.0
- Numismatic Mint
- Corinth
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 4.83
- Obverse Description
- Head of smiling Aphrodite to right, hair pulled back into bun and hanging loose behind
- Obverse Inscription
- Behind head, COR[INTH]
- Reverse Description
- Bellerophon, right arm raised with lance, riding Pegasos rearing to right over chimaera on ground line (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)
- Photograph
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- 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, 2013-2023. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/co1271>
