NM·15

From Lexicon Leponticum
Jump to navigationJump to search


Coin

Coin type

Coin type: Lejeune C1
Description: obverse: right-facing head of Apollo, reverse: right-facing head of a horse and legend
Material (main component): silver
Average diameter: unknown
Average thickness: unknown
Average weight: unknown
Workmanship: cast

Archaeological culture: unknown
Date:

Number of known pieces: 7
Area of circulation: Rhône valley
Mint / Main site: unknown
Coordinates (approx.): none

Coin legend

Idealised transliteration: .a.lkouesi 
Idealised original script: punctuation dA dpunctuation dL sK dO2 dU dE dS sI d
Variant reading: iailkouesi
I dA dI dL sK dO2 dU dE dS sI d
Position: back
Orientation:
Direction of writing: dextroverse
Script: North Italic script
Letter height: 00 cm <br />0 in <br />
Number of letters: 8 - 10
Number of words: 1
Number of lines: 1
Inscription type: minting authority
Language: Celtic
Meaning: 'of Alkovesos' (?)

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 331

Sources: Lejeune 1971: 130

Images

Commentary

Seven specimens of the coin type are known to us:
1. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), inv. no. 2537: 2.48 g, 14x15 mm; Pautasso 1976: tav. X.32; image in the Gallica catalogue
2. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), inv. no. 2538: 2.38 g, 14.5x16.5 mm; image in the https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b11284391m Gallica catalogue]
3. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), inv. no. 2539: 2.6 g, 14.5x15.5 mm; Pautasso 1976: tav. X.29; image in the Gallica catalogue
4. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), inv. no. 2540: 2.36 g, 14x15 mm; Pautasso 1976: tav. X.31; image in the Gallica catalogue
5. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), inv. no. 2541: 1.85 g, 14.5x15.5 mm; Pautasso 1976: tav. X.28; image in the Gallica catalogue
6. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), inv. no. 2542: 2.55 g, 13x16 mm; image in the Gallica catalogue
7. Pautasso 1976: tav. X.30; 2.7 g; Museo di Leone, cat. no. 339

No. 1 has deviating (and less strange) orthography: punctuation d?A dL dK dO2 dU dE dS sI d. Cf. NM·16 for a legend with dubious initial iota.

Bibliography

Brenot 1998 Claude Brenot, "A propos des monnaies à légendes lépontiennes de Transalpine", in: Fondazione "Andrea Pautasso" per gli studi di numismatica (ed.), Forme di contatto tra moneta locale e moneta straniera nel mondo antico. Atti del Convegno internazionale, Aosta 13-14 ottobre 1995. A cura di Giovanni Gorini, Padova: Esedra Editrice 1998, 23-37.