1815 - Citium (Baalmelek) (double siglos Heracles/lion & stag) over Athens (Athena/owl) (London, BM, BMC Crete, 35)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 1815

425 BCE - 400 BCE | B'LMLK (in Aramaic)

Images

Overstriking coin

Citium_over_Athens_London_BM.jpg

Overstruck variety

Athens under Citium.jpg [1]

Traces of the overstruck variety

Citium_over_Athens_London_BM_drawing.jpg

Location/history

Museum collectionMuseum collection:	London, British Museum, BMC Crete, n° 35

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Herakles in fighting stance to right, wearing lion skin upon his back and tied around neck, holding club overhead in right hand and bow extended before him in left hand. Dotted border.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

B'LMLK (in Aramaic) (Aramaic) Lion attacking stag crouching right inside dotted border within incuse square.

Mint and issuing power

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

Citium

Ancient regionAncient region.

Cyprus

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:

Baalmelek II of Citium (king of Citium and Idalium, 5th c. BC)

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 425 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 400 BCE

Classical ^{480-323 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 11.7111.71 g <br />11,710 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: double siglos
		StandardStandard.: Persian

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

BMC Crete1BMC Crete, n° 35, Tziambazis 20022Tziambazis 2002, 19

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Athena right, wearing Attic helmet (visible: front of the neck, chin, lips of Athena, as well as the outline of the flattened and much distorted nose).

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Skew pattern incuse square.

Mint and issuing power

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

Athens

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Attica

Modern countryModern country: Greece

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

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 480 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 457 BCE

Classical ^{480-323 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ^ᵖ:

tetradrachm

StandardStandard. ^ᵖ:

Attic

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:	HGC 63HGC 6, n° 437, Meadows (forthcoming)4Meadows (forthcoming), Groups IIa-IIb
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/aegina.meadows askari.2a-c

Additional data

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

References

^ Wroth, Warwick William (1886), A Catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. vol. X : Crete and the Aegean Islands, London, The Trustees, p. 152, pl. XXIX
^ Tziambazis, Elias (2002), A catalogue of the coins of Cyprus: from 560 B.C. to 1571 A.D., Larnaca, 89 p.
^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2010), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, volume 6 : handbook of coins of the islands: Adriatic, Iionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus), sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 358 p.
^ Meadows, Andrew (forthcoming), Greek coinage in the Persian Empire: The Malayer 1934 Hoard (IGCH 1790).