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Silver Coin (Mint: Caulonia)

Title:
Silver Coin (Mint: Caulonia)
Collection:
Cornell Coin Collection
Date:
530-480 BCE
Site:
Calabria, Italy
Country:
Italy
Identifier:
CNC_0216
Denomination:
Stater
Mint Location:
Caulonia
Obverse:
KAÚÙ (field left) : Naked archaic male figure advancing right, hair bound, falling to shoulders in ringlets
right arm raised and holding branch, left arm extended and bearing small figure running, carrying branch
in field right, stag right looking back
dotted cable border.
Reverse:
Similar to obverse, but incuse and reversed, and without legend.
Work Type:
coins (money)
money
Materials/Techniques:
silver (metal)
Subject:
Coins, Ancient
Extent:
7.75 g
30 mm
Bibliography:
Seaby, Greek Coins and Their Values, Vol.1, p.34.252
BMC - Italy, Vol.1, p.334-335
Head, Historia Numorum 2, p.92, fig.10
Kraay, Greek Coins, plate 90, #259.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collecting Program:
Cornell Collections of Antiquities
Rights:
The content in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Coins Collection (in part Greek and Roman Coin Collection, #8464, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections) is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of the age of the underlying coins, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright]. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2011 from original materials, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact rareref@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.
Disclaimer:
Items in the Cornell Coins Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes
metadata may not be complete in all cases.

About the collection

Cornell's Coin Collection comprises ca. 1500 gold, silver and bronze coins from ancient Greece and Rome, and ca. 300 coins from the Byzantine empire, with some additions from Lydia, Persia, the Sassanid Empire, China and modern Europe. A large number of the coins was acquired by Cornell Professors Eugene P. Andrews and Frederick O. Waage in the first half of the 20th century.