2078 - Catana (tetradrachm) (man-faced bull/Nike) over Naxos (Dionysus/Silenus) (Spink America. A Member of the Christie's Group. New York City, May 1995, 46)
Spink America. A Member of the Christie's Group. New York City, 03 May 1995, 46.
Overstriking coin
Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
Man-faced bull (river-god Amenanos) right. Above, Nike flying to right with wreath. Border of dots.
ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
KATANAIOΣ (Greek) Nike advancing left, wearing long pleated peplos, holding taenia in her outstretched right hand, aphlastron in left. In left field, K.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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. 461 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 445 BCE
Classical 480-323 BCperiodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver
DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm
"[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1SNG ANS 3 Sicily, n° 1235, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2Arnold-Biucchi 1990, n° 70-72, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3HGC 2, n° 563
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. 461 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 430 BCE
Classical 480-323 BCperiodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.ᵖ:
"[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]4Cahn 1944, n° 54, "[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]5SNG ANS 4 Sicily, n° 515-9, "[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3HGC 2, n° 983
^Arniold-Biucchi, Carmen (1990), The Randazzo hoard 1980 and Sicilian chronology in the early fifth century B.C., Numismatic Studies 18, New York, 77 p., 20 pl.
abHoover, 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.
^Cahn, Herbert A. (1944), Die Münzen der sizilischen Stadt Naxos. Ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte des griechischen Westens, Basel, 168 p., XII pl.
^Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum ANS 4. The Collection of the American Numismatic Society. Sicily 2 (Galaria - Styella), New York, 1977, 25 pl.
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