Agora Coin: N 55835
Inventory Number:   N 55835
Section Number:   ΡΡ-192
Category:   Coin
Description:   Forgery: betrayed by its mediocre style, light weight, pewterlike alloy, and dulled, cast relief, all of which are typical of cheap, modern imitations. Found in mixed, late, although not obviously "modern" fill.
Notes:   Casts
Coin no. 192.
Context:   Before cleaning, alongside stoa wall.
Obverse:   Head of Athena r., wearing Attic helmet.
Reverse:   ΑΘΕ
Owl standing r., facing; behind, olive spray and crescent.
Notebook Page:   434, 859
Negatives:   C 606
Weight:   10.14
Denomination:   Tetradrachm
Die Axis:   3:00
Material:   "silver"
Metal:   "silver"
Chronology:   Second half of 5th c. B.C.
Date:   21 April 1972
Section:   ΡΡ
Grid:   T/4,5-13/11,12
Period:   Greek
Region:   Attica
Authority:   Athens, Forgery
Bibliography:   Agora XXVI, p. 291, Appendix A:a, pl. 32:a.
References:   Publication: Agora XXVI
Publication Page: Agora 26, s. 317, p. 291
Publication Page: Agora 26, s. 373, p. 347
Card: ΡΡ-192
Card: ΡΡ-192