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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Coin | |
| Name: | 1981 179 | |
| Title: | Roman Republican Copper/Bronze As of Augustus, Eastern Mint (25 BC - 14 BC) | |
| Year: | 1981 | |
| Coin Number: | 179 | |
| Period: | Roman Republican | |
| Material: | AE | |
| Denomination: | as | |
| Mint: | Eastern | |
| Authority: | Augustus | |
| Obverse Type: | Male head r. | |
| Reverse Type: | Laurel wreath in dot border | |
| Axis Clock: | 12 | |
| Weight Description: | 4.86 | |
| Weight: | 4.86 | |
| Diameter: | 27 | |
| Chronology: | 25 BC - 14 BC | |
| Context: | NB739 B139 P11 | |
| Findspot Description: | Theater East; Manhole 3 Excavation Date: 5/18/1981 Notebook 739, p. 11 Basket 139, NB739 B139 P11, . | |
| Area: | East of Theater | |
| Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Negative 81-51-26/27 Halved / Semuncial Halved Roman coins appear rare in Corinth finds. None mentioned by Edwards, Harris, or Fisher. Sectioning operation is clear: coin was placed with obverse facing up and chisel applied along axis of imperial portrait. RIC says it is an as, Asiatic, 19-15 BC For illustration see BMC (Rep) III pl. 118.14, called a dupondius. BMC II, p. 546, # 293-297 note 1: 89.8% copper, 2.7% zinc etc. Both books give mint as Pergamum and date as 27 BC or later. Metal composition of these coins in discussed in Num. Chron., 1904, p. 244. Twenty halved aes of Augustus Eastern C.A. series found in excavation at Sardis | |
| Reference: | cf. RIC I (revised ed.) 80.485 (Ephesus? from ca. 25 BCE) ; RIC, I, p. 64, #53; Grant, Six Aes Coinages, p. 8-10, 111-6; BMC Rep II, p. 546, # 293-297; Williams and Zervos 1982, no. 43, p. 152 (coin unit XI) | |
| Published: | Hesperia 1982, p. 152, # 43 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Williams & Zervos, Hesperia 51:2, 1982 Image: digital 2011 4928 Image: digital 2011 4929 Image: digital 2011 4930 |
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