100 BCE - 75 BCE | ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ (in two lines)
Overstriking coin
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Overstruck variety
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Janus, above, I.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ (in two lines) (Greek) Two centaurs rearing, facing away from one another.
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Thessalonica
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Macedon
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Modern countryModern country: Greece
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AuthorityIdentifies the issuing power. The authority can be "pretended" when the name or the portrait of X is on the coin but he/she was not the issuing power. It can also be "uncertain" when there is no mention of X on the coin but he/she was the issuing power according to the historical sources:
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Roman Republic, Roman province of Macedonia
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 100 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 75 BCE
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Hellenistic 323-30 BC  periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 5.325.32 g <br />5,320 mg <br />
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AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 1212 mm <br />1.2 cm <br />
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| DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 1919 mm <br />1.9 cm <br />
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References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin:
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MacDonald 2009, n° 63
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Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:
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Gaebler 19351Gaebler 1935, n° 17-21, SNG Copenhagen Macedonia I2SNG Copenhagen Macedonia I, n° 350, MacDonald 20093MacDonald 2009, n° 63, HGC 3.14HGC 3.1, n° 741, Kourempanas 20165Kourempanas 2016, n° 17
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| Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of young Dionysus right, wearing ivy wreath. (visible: Back and top of head, other slight traces)
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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[Θ]ΕΣΣΑΛ[Ο]ΝΙΚ[ΗΣ] (Greek) Goat standing right. (visible: forepart of goat)
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Mint and issuing power
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 148 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 31 BCE
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Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
References
References
- a b Gaebler, Hugo (1935), Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands, unter Leitung von Theodor Wiegand. Band III, Makedonia und Paionia. 2. Abt., Verlag W. de Gruyter, Berlin
- ^ Breitenstein, Niels (1943), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum, 8. Macedonia. Part. 1 Acanthus - Uranopolis - Dynasts, 11 pl.
- ^ Macdonald, David (2009), Overstruck Greek coins: studies in Greek chronology and monetary theory, Whitman Publishing, Atlanta.
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2016), Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. 3. Part I: Macedon, Illyria, and Epeiros, sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 437 p.
- a b Kourempanas, Theodoros (2016), "Τα ελληνιστικά νομίσματα της Θεσσαλονίκης" , Athens, p. 112, pl. 13.
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