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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Coin | |
| Name: | 2006 58 | |
| Title: | Greek Copper/Bronze Coin of the Achaian League (360 BC - 250 BC) | |
| Year: | 2006 | |
| Coin Number: | 58 | |
| Period: | Greek | |
| Material: | AE | |
| Dynasty: | Achaian League | |
| Comments: | Irregularly shaped flan | |
| Obverse Type: | Zeus head r., laureate | |
| Reverse Type: | X in wreath tying below? | |
| Axis Clock: | 12 | |
| Weight Description: | 1.77 | |
| Weight: | 1.77 | |
| Diameter: | 13.5 . | |
| Chronology: | 360 BC - 250 BC | |
| Context: | NB976 B57 P128 | |
| Findspot Description: | E 412.00/ N 970.81, elevation 91.24, NB976 B57 P128, . | |
| Area: | Panaghia north | |
| Notes: | Very rare early bronze issue. There is some dispute over the dating of these: at Olympia several were found in strata of the 370s-360s BC, but they appear very similar in type to the early silver hemidrachms of the Achaean League that are dated around the mid-3rd c. BC. The diameter places this in the likely earlier issues of the 4th c. BC, rather than the later of c. 20mm, but too few specimens have been found in archaeological contexts to be able to say much with certainty. | |
| Reference: | Moustaka 1999, nos. 33-9; Knapp and Mac Isaac 2005, nos. 1558-60; BCD 2006, nos. 377-80, 382-4 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Basket: NB976 B57 P128 Notebook Page: NB 976, spread 72 (pp. 128 - 129) |
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