455 BCE - 430 BCE | ΛΕΟΝΤΙΝΟΝ
Overstriking coin
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Overstruck variety
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Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ:
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Gemini, 9, Jan. 2012, 3.
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath. Border of dots.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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ΛΕΟΝΤΙΝΟΝ (Greek) Lion head right with open jaw surrounded by three barley corns and a cithara.
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Leontini
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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. 455 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 430 BCE
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Classical 480-323 BC  periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 17.1117.11 g <br />17,110 mg <br />
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DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm
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AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 22 mm <br />0.2 cm <br />
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StandardStandard.: Attic
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References
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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ΣEΛINONTIOΣ (Greek) Biga left in which stand Artemis shooting arrow and holding reins (visible: on the obverse, the spokes of the chariot wheel and the back of Artemis)
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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ΣEΛINOΣ (Greek) The river-god Selinos, naked, standing left, holding branch in right hand and a patera in left hand over an altar. In left field, in front of the altar stands a cockerel. In right field, a bull standing left on platform, above which is a selinon leaf (visible: the fluted pattern on the lower right edge is a remnant of the podium on which the little bull stood, the bull's hindquarters and the selinon leaf above him)
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ:
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Selinus
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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. 440 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 422 BCE
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Classical 480-323 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ:
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tetradrachm
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StandardStandard. ᵖ:
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Attic
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References
| Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ:
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Schwabacher 19254Schwabacher 1925, n° 7, SNG Lloyd5SNG Lloyd, vol. V-VI, n° 1225, Boehringer 19976Boehringer 1997, p. 5-19, pl. 1, 14-15, HGC 22HGC 2, n° 1120
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| Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:
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References
- ^ Boehringer, Christof (1998), "Zur Muenzgeschichte von Leontinoi in klassischer Zeit", in: Ashton, Richard - Hurter, Silvia (eds), Studies in Greek numismatics in memory of Martin Jessop Price, London, Spink, p.43-53.
- 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.
- ^ Fischer-Bossert, Wolfgang (2016), "Leontinoi, Selinus, Katane : zwei Überprägungen", in Lavinia Sole and Sebastiano Tusa (eds), Nomismata: studi di numismatica offerti ad Aldina Cutroni Tusa per il suo novantatreesimo compleanno, Ragusa : Ed. di Storia e Studi Sociali, p. 107-123.
- ^ Schwabacher, Willy (1925), "Die Tetradrachmenprägung von Selinunt", Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Numismatischen Gesellschaft, XLIII, p. 1-89, pl. I-III.
- ^ Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain Vol. 2 : The Lloyd Collection. Part 1-2 Etruria to Thurium, Part 3-4 Velia to Eryx, Part 5-6 Galaria to Selinus, Part 7-8 Syracuse to Lipara
- ^ Boehringer, Christof (1997), "Konkordanz und Nachtrag zum Muenzfund von Selinunte 1923 (IGCH 2084)", Revue Suisse de Numismatique vol. 76, p. 5-18, pl. 4.
