16369 - Asia Minor (uncertain mint under Macedonian kings) (Cassander) (AE Athena/club) over uncertain mint (Philip III) (Macedonian shield/helmet) (Naumann, 126, March 2023, 11)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 16369

305 BCE - 297 BCE | BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ AΛΕΞANΔΡΟΥ

Images

Overstriking coin

2334 - Cassander over Alexander the Great.png [1]

Overstruck variety

Philip III Shield helmet.jpg [2]

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Vilmar Numisamtics, inv. 18750 = Numismatik Naumann, 126, 5 March 2023, 11

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Helmeted head of Athena right

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ AΛΕΞANΔΡΟΥ (Greek) Club above bow-in-bowcase

Mint and issuing power

MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:

Asia Minor (uncertain mint under Macedonian kings)

Ancient regionAncient region.

Mysia

Modern countryModern country: Turkey

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:

Cassander (regent and king of Macedonia, 317-297 BC), Macedonian kingdom

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 305 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 297 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 4.134.13 g <br />4,130 mg <br />
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 1818 mm <br />1.8 cm <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:		Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	Gaebler 19351Gaebler 1935, n° 8, HGC 3.12HGC 3.1, n° 962
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/cassander.amng.iii.2.7-8

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Macedonian shield, on boss, head of Herakles facing slightly to right, wearing lion skin headdress

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Macedonian helmet

Mint and issuing power

MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ^ᵖ:

Asia Minor (uncertain mint under Macedonian kings)

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Mysia

Modern countryModern country: Turkey

AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ^ᵖ:

Macedonian kingdom, Philipp III Arrhidaeus (Argead king, 323-317 BC)

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 323 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 317 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:	Price 19913Price 1991, n° 2803
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:	https://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.2803

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	frequent	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:	sure
RemarksRemarks:	"ovestruck on a bronze issue of Alexander III of Macedon (336-323 BC)."

References

^ 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
^ 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.
^ Price, Martin Jessop (1991), The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus: a British Museum Catalogue, 2 vol., Zürich-London, 637 p., 637 p., clix pl.