Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Coin | |
Name: | 1936 1800 | |
Title: | Venetian Copper/Bronze Coin of Venetian Colonial, Crete? Mint (AD 1688) | |
Year: | 1936 | |
Coin Number: | 1800 | |
Period: | Venetian | |
Material: | AE | |
Mint: | Crete? | |
Authority: | Venetian Colonial | |
Obverse Legend: | ||
Obverse Type: | Lion of St. Mark, facing, nimbate, striding l., holds book; book & rear paw overlap pellet border. | |
Reverse Legend: | ||
Reverse Type: | Outer insciption within double-pellet borders; central 2-line legend, with 5-petal rosette flanked by 6-point stars above, 5-petal rosette below. | |
Symbol: | Obv.: in ex. *IIII* (flanked by 6-point stars) | |
Axis Clock: | 2 | |
Diameter: | 28 | |
Chronology: | AD 1688 | |
Findspot Description: | South Stoa M Excavation Date: 03/17/1936, #12-13 Notebook 151 (Broneer), p.77. Card #386, . | |
Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Date suggested on card as "after 1688?" - but the Ottoman conquest of Crete was completed by 1669. (M.D.H. 06/17/2010) | |
Reference: | Tzamalis, Nom.Hellen.Chron., p.112, B58. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Images (6) |