443 BCE - 400 BCE | ΘΟΥΡΙΩΝ
Overstriking coin
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Overstruck variety
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Traces of the overstruck variety
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Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with wreath. In right field, Φ.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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ΘΟΥΡΙΩΝ (Greek) Bull walking left. Below bull, bird left. In exergue, fish left.
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Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Thurium
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Lucania
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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. 443 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 400 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: 7.387.38 g <br />7,380 mg <br />
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DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: nomos
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AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 66 mm <br />0.6 cm <br />
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StandardStandard.: Achaian
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References
Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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AKPA (Greek) Eagle left with closed wings (visible on reverse: wing, neck, some belly feathers, legend).
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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Crab (visible on obverse: body and claws).
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Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ:
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Agrigentum
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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. 495 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 400 BCE
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Archaic until 480 BC , 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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didrachm
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References
References
- ^ Macdonald, David (2009), Overstruck Greek coins: studies in Greek chronology and monetary theory, Whitman Publishing, Atlanta.
- ^ Rutter N. Keith et alii (eds.) (2001), Historia Numorum Italy, London, xvi, 223 p., 43 pl.
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2018), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 1. Handbook of Coins of Italy and Magna Graecia, Sixth to First Centuries BC., Lancaster-London, 2018, lxi, 527 pages, 23 cm
- ^ Westermark, Ulla (2018), The coinage of Akragas c. 510-406 BC, 2 vol., Uppsala.