Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Coin | |
Name: | 1986 90 | |
Title: | Greek Copper/Bronze Coin, Thebes Mint (196 BC - 146 BC) | |
Year: | 1986 | |
Coin Number: | 90 | |
Period: | Greek | |
Material: | AE | |
Mint: | Thebes | |
Obverse Type: | Boeotian shield | |
Reverse Legend: | ||
Reverse Type: | Trident with straight crossbar upwards; to right, dolphin? | |
Symbol: | dolphin? | |
Axis Clock: | 5/11 | |
Diameter: | 11.5 | |
Chronology: | 196 BC - 146 BC | |
Context: | NB779 B92 P194 | |
Findspot Description: | East of Theater; Grid 96AW; Brown lens in south half of trench Excavation date: 5/15/1986 Notebook 779 p.194; Basket 72, NB779 B92 P194, . | |
Elevation: | 67.462 | |
Area: | East of Theater | |
Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Shield has staight "cuts," unlike the more rounded cut-outs of the earlier rounded-crossbar series (cf. BMC plate 5.17) | |
Reference: | BMC Central, p. 43, nos.108-111; BCD Boiotia 77-80 (dated ca. 300-250 BCE) | |
Published: | Hesperia 1987, p. 38, no. 23 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Williams & Zervos, Hesperia 56:1, 1987 |