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- KC069 (Middle Hellenistic bronze coin of Sikyon) [permalink]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Not after (date)
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-200
- Not before (date)
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-250
- Logical part of
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Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
- Typological identification
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Coin
- Comparanda
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BMCPeloponnesus Sicyon 204, p. 52
- Comparanda
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NemeaIII 1452-1459, p. 139, pl. 17 (R. C. Knapp and J. D. MacIsaac)
- Comparanda
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Warren1983, pp. 39-43, Group 4C.8, pl. 7
- Contributor Notes
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2024 (October): JLR refined Weir2022.
- Description
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Die slightly struck off flan to obverse bottom. Flan somewhat oversized for type.
- Preservation description
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Wear: P. Extensive, slight pitting to incipient cratering; nicked edge; small, scattered patches of green bronze disease.
- Published as
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Weir2022, pp. 1125, 1126, no. 798, fig. 23.5
- Axis (1-12)
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8
- Has denomination
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Chalkous
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
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15.5
- Numismatic Mint
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Sikyon
- Numismatic Weight (g)
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2.71
- Obverse Description
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Dove flying to left
- Reverse Description
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Name of city within wreath tied above (thick leaves)
- Reverse Inscription
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ΣΙ (letters are compact with serifs and sigma has bent bars?)
- Chronology comment
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J. Warren (pp. 38, 41, n. 76) identifies Group 4C.8 in the “monumental style“ as the final issue of the type, which ranges ca. 330-200 BCE.
- Belongs to Historical Period
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Middle Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Material
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Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
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Bird (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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