Co 936 (Ancient bronze coin) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Coin
Comment
JLR: traces of forms vaguely discernible: Aphrodite with rolled hair obv? Pegasus rev?
Comment
RW: “Hellenistic? flan is very thin and ragged (chipped?), brass rather than bronze; various possibilities in the Greek world (e.g. Athens, Rhegion, Argos, Zakynthos)“
Logical part of
Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
Typological identification
Coin
Contributor Notes
2017 (May 29): R. Weir studied and described, with reference to KenchreaiIII.
Preservation description
Wear: P. Slight, extensive pitting to incipient cratering; extensive nicking around edge; narrow patches of bluish white bronze disease.
Published as
KenchreaiIII, p. 78, no. 1230 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Uncertain, Byzantine”)
Numismatic Diameter (mm)
19.0
Numismatic Weight (g)
1.79
Material
Bronze (Material)
Photograph
Photograph