Inventory Number: | N 79366 | |
Title: | Coin of Athens, AE | |
Description: | Very worn both sides; details partially illegible. Obv.: Helmeted head of Athena, r.; border of dots. Rev.: ΑΘΕ; Athena advancing r., armed with spear and aegis; in front, an owl; the whole in a wreath of olives. Cf. J.N. Svoronos, Les monnaies d' Athenes, pl. 80, nos. 29-32. According to J.H. Kroll this type of coin occurs in late-post Sullan hoards of Athens and not before. Cf. A.R. Bellinger, Amer. Num. Soc. N. Mon. 42, 1930, p. 11, I | |
Context: | Coin found on the Sanctuary of Zeus on Mount Hymettos, inventoried and published as H 577. | |
Chronology: | Augustan Period | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia Suppl. 16 (1975), no. 336, pp. 72-73, pl. 27. |