- Co 1304 (Early Hellenistic bronze coin of Athens) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Not after (date)
- -270
- Not before (date)
- -270
- Comment
- Coin dated ca. 270 BC
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Comparanda
- AgoraXXVI 56, p. 46, pl. 6
- Comparanda
- SvoronosPick19231926, pl. 22:76, 77
- Preservation comment
- Wear: aG/P. Long segments snapped off and deep marginal chipping; extensive, slight pitting to gouging and flaking especially reverse. Wide areas of white bronze disease on both faces.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIII, p. 82, no. 1309 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Illegible“)
- Axis (1-12)
- 12
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
- 15.5
- Numismatic Mint
- Athens
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 1.74
- Obverse Description
- Head of Athena to right, wearing Corinthian helmet
- Reverse Description
- Owl standing right but head facing; to lower right, wreath
- Reverse Inscription
- Above figure, to right and left, [Α]|Θ-Ε
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Early Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Bird (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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“Co 1304 (Early Hellenistic bronze coin of Athens).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/co1304>
