Agora Coin: N 57785
Inventory Number:   N 57785
Section Number:   ΡΡ'-1153
Category:   Coin
Description:   Plated counterfeit of Massalian silver drachm. No traces of silver plating remain. For subaerate Gaulish coins such as this that have been found in North Italian hoards, see A. Pautasso, Le Monete preromane dell' Italia Settentrionale (Varese 1966), pp. 95-96.
Notes:   Casts
Coin no. 1153.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   Room 8, fill under level Floor C-2.
Handling:   handle with gloves
Obverse:   Female head r.
Reverse:   Lion l.; above, traces of a few blundered letters.
Notebook Page:   592, 1055, 1695
Negatives:   C 621, 91-3-24
Weight:   2.80
Denomination:   Drachm (Plated Counterfeit)
Die Axis:   4:30
Material:   See Denomination
Metal:   Silver
Chronology:   2nd-1st c. B.C.
Date:   29 June 1973
Section:   ΡΡ'
Grid:   U/14-13/15,17
Lot:   Lot ΡΡ' 189
Period:   Greek
Region:   Italy
Authority:   Cisalpine Celts
    Massalia
Bibliography:   Agora XXVI, no. 417, photo.
Published Type:   A. Pautasso, Le Monete preromane dell' Italia Settentrionale (Varese 1966), pls. xxvii ff.
References:   Publication: Agora XXVI
Publication Page: Agora 26, s. 196, p. 170
Publication Page: Agora 26, s. 373, p. 347
Image: 2012.77.1694 (91-3-24)
Card: ΡΡ'-1153
Card: ΡΡ'-1153