Corinth Coin: 1969 64
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1969 64
Title:   Greek Silver Hemidrachma of the Achaean League, Dyme Mint (86 BC)
Year:   1969
Coin Number:   64
Period:   Greek
Material:   AR
Denomination:   Hemidrachma
Mint:   Dyme
Dynasty:   Achaean League
Obverse Type:   Zeus head r.; wearing laureate wreath
Reverse Legend:   ATR to l., DY above, F to r.
Reverse Type:   AX with letters in wreath; fish below
Symbol:   fish
Axis Clock:   10
Weight Description:   1.39
Weight:   1.39
Chronology:   86 BC
Findspot Description:   Sacred Spring South; Fill under Roman floor; Found in hoard
Excavation date: 4/23/1969
Notebook 440 p.30; Basket 22, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Redated to Sullan period based on Warren 1999, 376-7. Same reverse die as BCD 2006, no. 483.
Reference:   Agrinion Hoard, 159 p.63, 95; Campanelli Pog.Pic. Hd.pl.IV.12; BCD 2006, nos. 483-4.
Published:   Hesperia 1971, p. 43. 140; Corinth 20, 2003.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams & Fisher, Hesperia 40:1, 1971
Images (6)