Agora Coin: N 27976
Inventory Number:   N 27976
Section Number:   Ι-1400
Category:   Coin
Notes:   Coin no. 53.
Casts in Lab Case No. 53E.
Context:   On strosis 2, found close together with coins N 27975 (Ι-1399, no. 52 of the day) and N 27977 (Ι-1401, no. 54 of the day).
Obverse:   Head or bust of Athena r., rarely l., wearing Corinthian, Attic, or composite helmet, often highly varied in style. She occasionally wears a necklace. If a head, truncation is either bare or with slight drapery; if a bust, it may be heavily draped or armored with aegis; border of dots.
Reverse:   AθH-NAIωN (retrograde from lower r.) Hermes, nude but for cloak billowing over shoulders, striding l., wearing petasos and holding coin sack with outstretched r. hand, caduceus with l.; border of dots.
Negatives:   91-28-19
Weight:   6.17
Denomination:   Drachm
Material:   Bronze
Metal:   Bronze
Chronology:   Ca. 264-267 A.D.
Date:   3 July 1933
Section:   Ι
Grid:   Ι:42/ΙΖ
Period:   Greek
Region:   Attica
Authority:   Athens
Bibliography:   Agora XXVI, no. 358a, photo.
Published Type:   Svoronos (1923), pl. 92:27-29.
    NCP, DD:xxi.
References:   Publication: Agora XXVI
Publication Page: Agora 26, s. 182, p. 156
Publication Page: Agora 26, s. 367, p. 341
Image: 2012.78.0495 (91-28-19)
Card: Ι-1400