Record ID: CORN-1A2BB4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Contemporary copper alloy copy of a silver Greek Owl Type A tetradrachm, with head of Athena on obverse and owl on reverse, minted in Athens c.454-431 BC. Coins like these are known and assumed to be contemporary forgeries, originally with silver plating, which has now worn off. These copies are usually described as 'money of necessity' and are associated with the fall of Athens to Sparta at the end of the Peloponnesian War, c.406 BC. There are references in Aristophanes to the use of bronze and scholars have speculated that these coins were produced officially with a bronze core a…
Created on: Monday 4th April 2016
Last updated: Friday 16th September 2016
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Record ID: CORN-A076F5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Greek or Greek Imperial coin, dating from c.300 BC - AD 250, with head facing right on obverse and perhaps a rider on horseback on the reverse, but too corroded and worn to make out any details in order to identify the coin.
Created on: Saturday 30th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 21st January 2014
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Record ID: CORN-046AF2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Indo-Greek coin from the Hindu Kush, an issue of Kujula Kadphises (second half of first century AD) which imitates a type of Hermaeus, who was a late Greek king in the area whose coins are imitated fairly extensively (Robert Bracey pers comm). The obverse has the bust of the King and the reverse a standing Heracles. Mitchiner 2897-2903 Hermaeus Soter "the Saviour" (c.90-70 BC) was a Western Indo-Greek king of the Eucratid Dynasty, who ruled the territory of Paropamisade in the Hindu-Kush region, with his capital in Alexandria of the Caucasus which is near today's Kabul…
Created on: Monday 7th February 2011
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-01E4D1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Indo-Greek coin from the Hindu Kush, an issue of Vasudeva I (c. AD 190-230) showing the King on the obverse sacrificing at a fire altar and the god Wesho, depicted as Siva, with a bull on the reverse; Mitchiner 3491-3495
Created on: Monday 7th February 2011
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-017F94
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Greek or Byzantine coin, c.300 BC - AD 650
Created on: Friday 26th November 2010
Last updated: Friday 26th November 2010
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Record ID: CORN-8992D5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman Provincial coin (probably an As) of Maximinus I (AD 235-8), Mint of Tomis in Moesia, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, Thrace, plate 6, c.f. no. 299
Created on: Wednesday 4th August 2010
Last updated: Friday 6th August 2010
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Record ID: CORN-304E45
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Alexandrian tetradrachm, c.AD 14-250, probably 1st-2nd century AD
Created on: Monday 22nd February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-640F94
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Greek coin weight, oval in plan and flat in section, with no markings, smooth on obverse and pitted and flawed on reverse
Created on: Tuesday 27th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 11th December 2014
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Record ID: CORN-0244F2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy tetradrachm of Diocletian Struck at Alexandria, AD 285-6 Ref. BMC Greek, Alexandria, p. 327, no. 2532
Created on: Tuesday 6th May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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