338 BCE - 318 BCE | ABAKAINI around
Overstriking coin
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Overstruck variety
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Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ:
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Artemide Kunstauktionen, eLive Auction 26, 2023, 137
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of nymph r., hair in ampyx and sphendone
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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ABAKAINI around (Greek) Forepart of man-headed bull r.
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Abacaenum
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Sicily
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Modern countryModern country: Italy
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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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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 338 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 318 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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References
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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ΠOΣEIΔAN (Greek) Head of Poseidon wearing an olive crown l.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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MEΣΣANIΩN (Greek) Trident head with dolphins between prongs, dolphins downward at sides
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ:
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Messana
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Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ
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Sicily
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Modern countryModern country: Italy
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AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ᵖ:
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 338 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 318 BCE
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Classical 480-323 BC , Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
References
References
- a b Hoover, Oliver D. (2012), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series. 2. Handbook of the Coins of Sicily (Including Lipara). Civic, Royal, Siculo-Punic, and Romano-Sicilian Issues. Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster-London, 489 p.
- ^ Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum ANS 5. The Collection of the American Numismatic Society. Sicily 3. Syracuse-Siceliotes, New York, 1988,
