Kenchreai Archaeological Archive: Co 1289 (Late Classical-Early Hellenistic bronze coin of Attic Salamis)

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Type: Inventoried Coin
Not after (date): -300
Not before (date): -400
Logical part of: Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
Typological identification: Coin
Comparanda: AgoraXXVI 640, pp. 214-215, pl. 26 (J. Kroll)
Comparanda: BMCAttica Salamis 1-6, p. 116, pl. XX:7, 8
Contributor Notes: 2017 (late May-beginning June): R. Weir studied, with reference to KenchreaiIII.
Contributor Notes: 2022: JLR identified coin after consultation with Alan Walker.
Preservation description: Wear: F. Marginal chipping and deep break with cracking at obverse axis 2; extensive, slight to moderate pitting, scratching and gouging. Small spots of incipient white bronze disease.
Published as: KenchreaiIII, p. 82, no. 1308 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Illegible”)
Axis (1-12): 6
Numismatic Diameter (mm): 16.0
Numismatic Mint: Salamis (Attica)
Numismatic Weight (g): 1.92
Obverse Description: Head of nymph Salamis to right, wearing stephane
Reverse Description: Boeotian shield, on which sheathed sword of Ajax
Reverse Inscription: Σ[Α]-Λ[Α]
Chronology comment: Dated 4th century BCE
Belongs to Historical Period: Early Hellenistic (Historical Period)
Belongs to Historical Period: Late Classical (Historical Period)
Material: Bronze (Material)
Has visual motif (depicts): Mythological Person (Visual Motif)
Has visual motif (depicts): Weaponry and Armor (Visual Motif)
Obverse Photograph
Reverse Photograph