2000 - Salamis (double siglos ram/no type) over Aegina (turtle/incuse square) (Gorny & Mosch, 134, Oct. 2004, 1503)

From SILVER
SILVER IDUnique ID of the page : 2000


530 BCE - 500𐠁𐠄𐠳 ('E-u-fe' in Cypriot syllabic script)

Images
Overstriking coin
Salamis_over_Aegina_Gorny_&_Mosch,_134,_1503.jpg [1]
Overstruck variety
Aegina 5 parts.jpg [2]
Location/history
Sale(s)Sale(s) : Gorny & Mosch, 134, 11 Oct. 2004, 1503

Overstriking coin

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: 𐠁𐠄𐠳 ('E-u-fe' in Cypriot syllabic script) (Cypriot) Ram recumbent to left ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: No type.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: Salamis Ancient regionAncient region. Cyprus 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: Euelthon of Salamis (king of Salamis, last quarter of the 6th c. BC)
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 530 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 500 Archaic until 480 BC Nomisma.org periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver Nomisma.org WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 11.2711.27 g <br />11,270 mg <br /> DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: double siglos Nomisma.org
StandardStandard.: Persian
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: Destrooper-Georgiades 2013, p. 21, n° 23 Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: BMC Cyprus1BMC Cyprus, p. 46, n° 1-4, Tziambazis 20022Tziambazis 2002, n° 95, Zapiti - Michaelidou 20083Zapiti - Michaelidou 2008, n° 4, Destrooper-Georgiades 20134Destrooper-Georgiades 2013, p. 21, n° 23
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:

Overstruck type

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Turtle. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: Incuse square.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. : Aegina Ancient regionAncient region.  Attica Modern countryModern country: Greece AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. :
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 500 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 460 BCE Archaic until 480 BC Nomisma.org periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. : stater Nomisma.org StandardStandard. : Aeginetic
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study : HGC 65HGC 6, n° 435, Meadows (forthcoming)6Meadows (forthcoming), Groups IIa-IIb
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: rare and spread Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: sure
RemarksRemarks:

References

  1. ^  Hill, George Francis (1904), A Catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum, vol XX : Cyprus, London, cxliv, 119 p., xxvi pl.,
  2. ^  Tziambazis, Elias (2002), A catalogue of the coins of Cyprus: from 560 B.C. to 1571 A.D., Larnaca, 89 p.
  3. ^  Zapiti, Eleni - Michaelidou, Lefki (2008), Coins of Cyprus : from the collection of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Nicosia, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 329 p.
  4. ^  Destrooper-Georgiades, A. (2013), "Monnaies chypriotes surfrappées des cités-royaumes," in Demetrios Michaelides (ed.), Epigraphy, numismatics, prosopography and History of Ancient Cyprus. Papers in honour of Ino Nicolaou, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature PB 179, Uppsala, p. 9-40.
  5. ^  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.
  6. ^  Meadows, Andrew (forthcoming), Greek coinage in the Persian Empire: The Malayer 1934 Hoard (IGCH 1790).