Co 1304 (Early Hellenistic bronze coin of Athens) [permalink] [show fewer 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

Reverse Photograph