NM·4
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Coin Type | |
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| Coin Type: | drachma, Lejeune A4, Pautasso 10, Arslan XIII |
| Description: | obverse: right-facing female head, reverse: right-facing lion, legend above the lion |
| Material (main component): | silver |
| Material Composition: | unspecified silver alloy (probably silver, copper, tin, lead, and traces of antimony) |
| Shape: | irregular round |
| Average Diameter: | 1.4 cm0.551181 in |
| Average Thickness: | |
| Average Weight: | 2.20 g0.0022 kg 0.00485017 lb |
| Workmanship: | struck |
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| Archaeological Culture: | unknown |
| Date: | 130-110 BC |
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| Number of Known Pieces: | 20 |
| Area of Circulation: | Lombardian region: Gerenzago (Pavia), Verdello (Bergamo), Burwein (Graubünden), Brentonico (Trento) |
| Mint / Main Site: | Milano |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 45° 27' 49" N, 9° 11' 17" ELatitude: 45.463689 Longitude: 9.188141 [from site] |
Coin Legend | |
| Idealised Transliteration: | pirakos |
| Idealised Original Script: |       
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| Variant Reading: | pirakoị, pirukoi (Blanchet) |
| Position: | back, upper area |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Direction of Writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic Script |
| Letter Height: | 0 |
| Number of Letters: | 7 |
| Number of Words: | 1 |
| Number of Lines: | 1 |
| Inscription Type: | unknown |
| Language: | unknown |
| Syntactic Analysis: | NP |
| Meaning: | "Pirakos" (name) |
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| Alternative Sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 323 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 36 C |
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| Sources: | Pautasso 1966: 15 & 42-43 & 48 & 105 Arslan 2000: 232 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 199 |
Images
 Silver drachma with pirakos legend from the hoard of Burwein (Graubünden)
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 Silver drachma with pirakos legend from the hoard of Burwein (Graubünden)
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 Silver drachma with pirak(os) legend from the hoard of Burwein (Graubünden)
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 Coin with pirakos legend from the hoard of Verdello (Bergamo)
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 Coin with pirakos legend from the hoard of Verdello (Bergamo)
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High resolution images of the Pirakos-coins of Verdello
Details of the Pirakos-coin legends
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Commentary
- Data of examples:
- 2.47 g, 16.8 mm [Arslan 2000: 232 .13]
- 2.43 g, 15.0 mm [Arslan 2000: 232 .14]
- 2.48 g, 15.6 mm [Arslan 2000: 232 .15]
- Former readings of the leged based on an erroneous interpretation as Latin characters have not been taken into account in Lexicon Leponticum, e.g. Libeco (La Saussaye & Ackermann), Virekos (Deecke), Viricus (Castelfranco), Virecoi (Ricci).
Bibliography
| Arslan 2000 | Ermanno A. Arslan, "La monetazione con legende leponzie e la monetazione preromana dell'area leponzia e insubre", in: Raffaele Carlo De Marinis, Simonetta Biaggio Simona (Eds.), I Leponti tra mito e realtà, Locarno: Gruppo Archeologia Ticino 2000, 223-233. |
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| Pautasso 1966 | Andrea Pautasso, Le Monete Preromane dell'Italia Settentrionale, Varese: Centro di Studi Preistorici ed Archeologici 1966. |
| Tibiletti Bruno 1981 | Maria Grazia Tibiletti Bruno, "Le iscrizioni celtiche d'Italia", in: Enrico Campanile (Ed.), I Celti d'Italia, Pisa: Giardini 1981, 157-207. |
| Whatmough 1933 | Joshua Whatmough, The Prae-Italic Dialects of Italy. Vol. 2, Part 3: The Raetic, Lepontic, Gallic, East-Italic, Messapic and Sicel inscriptions, Cambridge/Mass.: Harvard University Press 1933. |
