Token Specimens from the Ancient Mediterranean: Agora IL837

Obverse: Broken bar letter Alpha in incuse stamp 10 mm. in diameter.

Reverse: An ear of wheat between two cornucopias, crossed by horizontal bar with split angular ends (like a trident without the middle prong). In field lower left letter Epsilon, lower right a blob which may originally have been a rho

Physical Description

Measurements
- Diameter: 13
- Weight: 2.06

Typological Description

Source: Agora L21

Object Type: Token
Date Range
- From Date: 300 BC
- To Date: 86 BC
Manufacture: Struck
Shape: Circle
Material: Lead
Geographic
- Mint: Athens
- Region: Attica

Findspot Description

Findspot
- Description: Agora. Late Roman context near Great Drain South (B20).
- Findspot: Athens (Greece)

References

Reference: Lang, M. and M. Crosby (1964). The Athenian Agora X: Weights, Measures and Tokens. Princeton, New Jersey, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens. (https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000211771)

Rights

CopyrightHolder: University of Warwick
License: All images are copyright of their respective institutions (images)

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Agora IL837

Physical Description

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