Co 1295 (Early Hellenistic bronze coin of Phocian League) [permalink] [show fewer links]

Type

Inventoried Coin

Not after (date)

-275

Not before (date)

-325

Comment

Coin dated late 4th-early 3rd century BC

Logical part of

Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins

Typological identification

Coin

Cited by

Walker1980, p. 219 (rev. KenchreaiIII)

Comparanda

AgoraXXVI 588, p. 203, pl. 25 (J. Kroll)

Comparanda

BMCCentralGreece Phocis 66-75, p. 20, pl. III:17

Comparanda

Picard1984, pp. 283-284, 286, no. 9, fig. 2 (Corycian Cave)

Preservation comment

Wear: G. Moderately nicked edge; extensive, slight to moderate pitting with rare cratering and gouging. Wide areas of white bronze disease.

Published as

KenchreaiIII, p. 17, no. 87 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Uncertain, Late Hellenic and Hellenistic“)

Axis (1-12)

12

Numismatic Authority

Phocian League

Numismatic Diameter (mm)

15.0

Numismatic Weight (g)

1.74

Obverse Description

Facing head of Athena turned slightly to left, wearing tripled crested helmet

Reverse Description

Olive wreath tied below

Reverse Inscription

Φ

Belongs to Historical Period

Early Hellenistic (Historical Period)

Material

Bronze (Material)

Has visual motif (depicts)

Athena/Minerva (Visual Motif)

Obverse Photograph

Reverse Photograph