21072 - Messana (tetradrachm biga/hare) over Leontini (biga/Apollo) (Stack's Bowers Galleries, Aug. 2017, 20004)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 21072

480 BCE - 426 BCE | MEΣΣENION

Images

Overstriking coin

Messana_over_Leontini_Stacks.jpg [1]

Overstruck variety

Leontini (under Messana).jpg [2]

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Stack's Bowers Galleries (& Ponterio), 2 Aug. 2017, 20004

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Muleteer seated, driving a biga left (two-mule chariot)

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

MEΣΣENION (Greek) Hare running left

Mint and issuing power

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

Messana

Ancient regionAncient region.

Sicily

Modern countryModern country: Italy

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. 480 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 426 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		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:	Caccamo Caltabiano 19931Caccamo Caltabiano 1993, series IIA-V, VI-VIII, X-XIII, HGC 22HGC 2, n° 779-786
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/messana.caltabiano 1993.415-424

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Slow quadriga driven r. by charioteer holding kentron and reins, above Nike flying l. to crown him. In exergue, lion springing r.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΛΕΟΝΤΙ - ΝΟ- Ν (Greek) Laureate head of Apollo r., hair plaited behind the neck. Around, three laurel leaves, below neck truncation, lion springing r.

Mint and issuing power

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

Leontini

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Sicily

Modern countryModern country: Italy

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. 475 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 465 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 22HGC 2, 665
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/leontini.boehringer 1998.26-29

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	rare and concentrated	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:	weak
RemarksRemarks:	"Overstruck on a Leontini AR Tetradrachm (SNG ANS-217-218)."

References

^ Caccamo Caltabiano, Maria (1993), La monetazione di Messana. Con le emissioni di Rhegion dell’eta della tirannide, AMUGS XIII, Berlin-New York, xviii, 383 p., 94 pl.
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.