Corinth Coin: 1986 90
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1986 90
Title:   Greek Copper/Bronze Coin, Thebes Mint (196 BC - 146 BC)
Year:   1986
Coin Number:   90
Period:   Greek
Material:   AE
Mint:   Thebes
Obverse Type:   Boeotian shield
Reverse Legend:   [BO]IVTVN
Reverse Type:   Trident with straight crossbar upwards; to right, dolphin?
Symbol:   dolphin?
Axis Clock:   5/11
Diameter:   11.5
Chronology:   196 BC - 146 BC
Context:   NB779 B92 P194
Findspot Description:   East of Theater; Grid 96AW; Brown lens in south half of trench
Excavation date: 5/15/1986
Notebook 779 p.194; Basket 72, NB779 B92 P194, .
Elevation:   67.462
Area:   East of Theater
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Shield has staight "cuts," unlike the more rounded cut-outs of the earlier rounded-crossbar series (cf. BMC plate 5.17)
Reference:   BMC Central, p. 43, nos.108-111; BCD Boiotia 77-80 (dated ca. 300-250 BCE)
Published:   Hesperia 1987, p. 38, no. 23
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams & Zervos, Hesperia 56:1, 1987