16704 - Thessalonica (AE Silenus/legend) over Pella (Zeus/thunderbolt) (Savoca Numismatik, Blue Auction, 140, 2022, lot 21)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 16704

142 BCE - 141 BCE | MAKEΔΟΝΩΝ D

Images

Overstriking coin

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Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Savoca Numismatik, Blue Auction 140, 2022, 21

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Silenos facing, wearing ivy wreath.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

MAKEΔΟΝΩΝ D (Greek) Legend within ivy wreath.

Mint and issuing power

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

Thessalonica

Ancient regionAncient region.

Macedon

Modern countryModern country: Greece

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:

Roman Republic, Roman province of Macedonia

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 142 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 141 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

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:		Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	"[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1Gaebler 1906, n° 212 pl. 3, 8, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2MacKay 1968b, 5-13, esp. 8-10 pl. 3, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3HGC 3.1, n° 1117
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/macedonians.fulcinnius.mackay.1968a.8

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Zeus wearing a laurel wreath

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Winged thunderbolt

Mint and issuing power

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

Pella

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Macedon

Modern countryModern country: Greece

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

Roman Republic

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

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:	"[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2MacKay 1968b, 5-13, esp. 8-10 pl. 3.
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/pella macedon.amng iii.2.16

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	frequent	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:	strong
RemarksRemarks:

References

^ Gaebler, Hugo (1906), Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands, unter Leitung von F. Imhoof-Blumer. Band III, Makedonia und Paionia. 1. Abt., Verlag W. de Gruyter, Berlin, 196 p.
a b MacKay, Pierre A. (1968), "Bronze Coinage in Macedonia, 168-166 B.C.", American Numismatic Society Museum Notes, 14, p. 5-13.
^ 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.