Kenchreai Archaeological Archive: Co 2012 (Early-Middle Hellenistic hemiobol of Ptolemy III from Corinth)

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Type: Inventoried Coin
Not after (date): -222
Not before (date): -243
Comment: RW, JLR: Middle-denomination bronze coins of Ptolemy III occur not uncommonly at sites in the northastern Peloponnese. C. C. Lorber (CPtolEmpI.2) has identified this hemiobol type as an issue of Corinth.
Logical part of: Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
Typological identification: Coin
Comparanda: Svoronos19041908, p. 155, no. 1000, pl. XXX:8
Comparanda: AgoraXXVI 1007, p. 283, pl. 31 (J. Kroll)
Comparanda: CPtolEmpI.2 B407
Description: Centering dimple on reverse.
Preservation comment: Wear: P+. Extensive, minute pitting; sparse marginal flaking; rare scratching. Small, thin areas of white bronze disease on both faces.
Axis (1-12): 12
Has denomination: Hemiobol
Numismatic Authority: Ptolemy III Euergetes (king of Egypt, 246-221 BCE)
Numismatic Diameter (mm): 20.0
Numismatic Mint: Corinth
Numismatic Weight (g): 5.04
Obverse Description: Laureate bust of king to right (characteristic profile); within dotted border
Reverse Description: Eagle with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt; behind, cornucopia (traces)
Reverse Inscription: Π[ΤΟΛΕ]ΜΑΙΟ[Υ] – ΒΑΣ[ΙΛΕΩΣ]
Belongs to Historical Period: Early Hellenistic (Historical Period)
Belongs to Historical Period: Middle Hellenistic (Historical Period)
Material: Bronze (Material)
Has visual motif (depicts): Eagle (Visual Motif)
Obverse Photograph
Reverse Photograph