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Agora Deposit: I 15:3

Title:		Coin Hoard
Category:		Pit
Description:		Pit in SW corner of Heliaia Peristyle (mint). The four Athenian imperial coins (Κ-1641 - Κ-1644) belong to the Athenian Imperial Group III, a series that can be very closely dated to the middle of the 3rd century AD, just before the Herulian invasion ... From size, fabric, and the fact that they have been sawed from a bar, it is clear that all 38 flans were cut for the minting of this same coinage. Both the coins and the flans are imperfect, many of the latter having irregular thicknesses or holes in them ... Obviously, the "hoard" in the pit represents a lot of rejected coins and flans, which were presumably put away to be melted down later, perhaps on the eve of the Herulian attack. It will be very interesting to know if other evidence can be adduced for placing the Athenian mint ca. 250 in the "Heliaia". Use of the building as a mint need not have gone back much before 250 since there is a gap of one or two generations before the Group III coinage during which Athens did not coin. (JHK 1973, deposit notebook) Cf. Hesperia 42 (1973) 312-333.
Contents:		Coins: 5 September 1960 #1-#42
Notes:		A. Walker coin deposit. Cf. K-1815 (earlier flan than those listed here?).
Bibliography:		Agora XXVI, pp. 295, 310.
Chronology:		Mid 3rd c. A.D.
Date:		5 September 1960
Section:		Κ
Grid:		I 15
References:		Publication: Agora XXVI Report: 1960 Κ Report Page: 1960 Κ, s. 16 Report Page: 1960 Κ, s. 17 Report Page: 1960 Κ, s. 18 Object: B 1254 Notebook: Κ-18 Notebook: Κ-19 Notebook: Κ-20 Notebook Pages (6)