• m13-17-0001-10
    Obverse. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m13-17-0001-20
    Reverse. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Hellenistic Bronze/Copper Alloy Unit of Probably Sardis

Monograph 13: Coins from the Excavations at Sardis: Their Archaeological and Economic Contexts (2018) Cat. 17.0001
Date
323 BC - 317 BC, Hellenistic
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
1986.C86.0010
Material
Bronze/Copper Alloy
Object Type
Coin
Coin Denomination
Unit
Coin Mint
Probably Sardis
Issuers
Philip III
Officina
Has Mint Mark
no
Has Control Mark
no
Has Monogram
no
Has Countermark
no
Hoard
Monograph 13 Catalog No.
14
Site
Sardis
Sector
ByzFort
Trench
ByzFort 86.14
Description
This coin type: Obverse: Head of young Herakles in lion skin helmet r.; Reverse: Rider galloping r. / ΦΙ, no symbol.
Condition
Fair
Dimensions
Weight: 6.02g; Diameter: 19mm.
Comments
Price (1991 p. 117) noted that 11 [9 are listed in M7] other examples of this coin were found in the Sardis excavations, calling the mint in western Asia Minor “virtually certain”; cf. Ashton 1998 p. 45. For the suggestion of mint, see Evans, in Kosmin and Berlin 2018.
See Also
Bibliography
Price 1991, p. 126, no. P2; M7 GR 20–21
Author
JDE

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