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Monogram. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Hellenistic Bronze/Copper Alloy Unit of Pergamum
- Date
- Ca. 215 BC - early second century BC?, Hellenistic
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- 1985.C85.0007
- Material
- Bronze/Copper Alloy
- Object Type
- Coin
- Coin Denomination
- Unit
- Coin Mint
- Pergamum
- Issuers
- Attalus II
- Officina
- Has Mint Mark
- no
- Has Control Mark
- no
- Has Monogram
- yes
- Has Countermark
- no
- Hoard
- Monograph 13 Catalog No.
- 23
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- ByzFort
- Trench
- ByzFort 85.NE
- Locus
- ByzFort 85.NE Locus 6
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E689.3 / S334.3 *183.4
- Description
- This coin type: Obverse: Helm. head of Athena r.; Reverse: Coiled serpent ΦΙΛΕΤΑΙΡΟΥ, mg.
- Condition
- Good
- Dimensions
- Weight: 1.72g; Diameter: 13mm.
- Coin Monogram
- SNG Tübingen 4, monogram 35, but on Asklepios/snake around omphalos.
- Comments
- Note that Mørkholm (1991 p. 129) suggested that coins with the name of Philetairos should primarily date to the 3rd century, though he does not exclude a minting date in the early 2nd century. See also Westermark 1991 p. 152 for the date given above; Chameroy (2012, p. 141) agrees with this date. Two of these coins came from lots that were dated to the 1st century BC to the first half of the 1st century AD; others came from Late Roman or unstratified contexts. mg. App. 2.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Westermark 1991: 14; M7 GR 34–40
- Author
- JDE