- Co 498 (Early Hellenistic bronze coin of Athens) [permalink]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Not after (date)
- -270
- Not before (date)
- -284
- Comment
- Coin dated ca. 284-270s BC
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Comparanda
- AgoraXXVI 55d-g, pp. 45-46, pl. 6 (J. Kroll)
- Comparanda
- SvoronosPick19231926, pl. 103:23, 27
- Preservation comment
- Wear: VG/G. Edge slightly snapped; extensive, slight to moderate pitting and sparse scratching and gouging. Wide patches of white bronze disease especially reverse.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIII, p. 16, no. 73 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Greek: Uncertain, Hellenistic and Late Hellenistic”)
- Axis (1-12)
- 9
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
- 10.0
- Numismatic Mint
- Athens
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 1.23
- Obverse Description
- Triptolemos mounting winged chariot
- Reverse Description
- Piglet standing to right on slender mystic staff within wheat wreath
- Reverse Inscription
- Below, ΕΛΕΥ[ΣΙ]
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Early Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Mythological Person (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Pig or Wild Boar (Visual Motif)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Religious Symbol or Object (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
-
- Reverse Photograph
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