Abstract

Out of the staters collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Taranto, during the full examination of about one hundred coins minted by the Greek colony of Taras between the V century BC and the III century BC, our attention has been devoted to a lead coin, which has been regarded for many years as a genuine silver coin. This artifact, entry number 13 in the inventory list for the Parabita hoard, has been studied with the combined use of surface and micro-analytical techniques (SEM, EDX, PIXE, XRD). The joint use of different analytical techniques allowed us to obtain information about the morphology, the structure and the chemical composition of the analysed coin, that revealed a lead core coated with a bi-layer of copper and silver.

Autore Pugliese

• Serra Antonio , Quarta Gianluca , Calcagnile Lucio , Bozzini Benedetto

Tutti gli autori

• A. SERRA , D. MANNO , E. FILIPPO , R. VITALE , G. SARCINELLI , L. CALCAGNILE , G. QUARTA , G. GIOVANNELLI , B. BOZZINI , A. SICILIANO

Titolo volume/Rivista

JOURNAL OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

Anno di pubblicazione

2010

ISSN

1296-2074

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