Co 786 (Late Roman bronze coin) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Coin

Comment

JLR 2024: CHECK COIN AND GET PIX

Comment

RW: “Unusually thick and heavy flan for such a coin, but the wreath is clearly of late Roman iconography ... [Coin dated] late 4th-5th c. AD.“

Logical part of

Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins

Typological identification

Coin

Contributor Notes

2017 (May 24): R. Weir studied and described, with reference to KenchreaiIII.

Preservation description

Wear: P.

Published as

KenchreaiIII, p. 16, no. 80 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Uncertain, Late Hellenic and Hellenistic ... (Megara?)“).

Axis (1-12)

9

Has denomination

AE4

Numismatic Diameter (mm)

14.0

Numismatic Weight (g)

2.43

Obverse Description

Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust of emperor to right (traces)

Reverse Description

Inscription in two lines within wreath

Reverse Inscription

VOT | [ ]

Belongs to Historical Period

Late Roman (Historical Period)

Material

Bronze (Material)