21806 - Thasos (tetradrachm Dionysus/Heracles) over Aesillas (Alexander/fiscus, club and sella) (Gorny & Mosch, 269, March 2020, 207)

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SILVER IDUnique ID of the page : 21806


89 BCE - 87 BCE | ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ / ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ / ΘAΣIΩN

Images
Overstriking coin
Gorny_&_Mosch_269, _207_(Sura).jpg [1]
Overstruck variety
Aesillas 2nd group.jpg
Location/history
Sale(s)Sale(s) : Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, 269, 9 March 2020, 207

Overstriking coin

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Head of youthful Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ / ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ / ΘAΣIΩN (Greek) Herakles standing left, nude but for lion's skin over his shoulder and left arm, resting right hand on club, in the inner left field, monogram of SVR (the VR in ligature)
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: Thasos Ancient regionAncient region. Thrace Modern countryModern country: Greece 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: Roman Republic
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 89 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 87 BCE Hellenistic 323-30 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: 16.5616.56 g <br />16,560 mg <br /> DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm Nomisma.org
StandardStandard.: Attic
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: Prokopov 20061Prokopov 2006, n° 1199, HGC 62HGC 6, n° 359

Overstruck type

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: MAKEΔONΩN (Greek) Head of Alexander the Great to right, with horn of Ammon over his ear ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: AESILLAS (Latin) Q Money chest, club, and chair, all within wreath
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. : Thessalonica Ancient regionAncient region.  Macedon Modern countryModern country: Greece AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. : Aesillas (quaestor in the Roman province of Macedonia in c. 90 BC), Roman Republic
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 85 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 60 BCE Hellenistic 323-30 BC Nomisma.org periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. : tetradrachm Nomisma.org StandardStandard. : Attic
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study : Callataÿ 1996b3Callataÿ 1996b, Bauslaugh 20004Bauslaugh 2000
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: frequent Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: sure
RemarksRemarks: nb: no mention of overstrike

References

  1. ^  Prokopov, Ilya (2006), Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jahrhundert v. Chr., Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin, 342 p., 118 p. of plates
  2. ^  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.
  3. ^  Callataÿ, François de (1996), "Les monnaies au nom d'Aesillas", in T. Hackens (ed.), Italiam Fato Profugi Hesperinaque Venerunt Litora. Numismatic Studies Dedicated to Vladimir and Elvira Eliza Clain-Stefanelli, Numismatica Lovaniensia 12, Louvain-la-Neuve, p. 113-151.
  4. ^  Bauslaugh, Robert A. (2000), Silver coinage with the types of Aesillas the Quaestor, Numismatic Studies 22, New York.