18862 - Tenedos (tetradrachm Janiform head/labrys) over uncertain type (NAC, 114, May 2019, 1188)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 18862

100 BCE - 70 BCE | TENEΔIΩN

Images

Overstriking coin

Tenedos_2516_NAC.jpg [1]

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Numismatica Ars Classica, 114, 6 May 2019, 1188 = M&M, FPL 297, 1969, 10 = NFA, MBS 12 Oct. 1988, 299.
Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ^ᵖ:	From the Harald Salvesen collection

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Janiform head of a laureate and bearded male to left and a diademed female to right.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

TENEΔIΩN (Greek) Labrys, below, monogram and bunch of grapes – Athena Promachos standing facing. All within laurel wreath

Mint and issuing power

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

Tenedos

Ancient regionAncient region.

Troas

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:

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.. 70 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 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: 16.2016.2 g <br />16,200 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm
		StandardStandard.: Attic

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

Callataÿ 19981Callataÿ 1998, n° 60, HGC 62HGC 6, n° 390

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Mint and issuing power

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

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Modern countryModern country:

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. toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context..

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	rare and spread	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:

References

^ Callataÿ, François de (1998), "Les monnaies hellénistiques en argent de Ténédos", in Georges Le Rider and Roger Bland (eds.), Studies in Greek Numismatics in memory of Martin Jessop Price, London, p. 99-114, pl. 24-28.
^ 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.