2214 - Citium (Baalram) (double siglos Heracles/lion & stag) over Aegina (turtle/incuse square) (Petsalis Coll. - Seltman 1924, 10)

From SILVER


400 BCE - 392 BCE | LMLKB (Aramaic)

Images
Overstriking coin
Citium_over_Aegina_Athens, _Petsalis.jpg
Overstruck variety
Aegina 5 parts.jpg [1]
Location/history
Private collection(s) ᵖ: Athens, Petsalis collection Archaeological context: Side hoard

Overstriking coin

Description
Obverse: Herakles in fighting stance to right, wearing lion skin, holding club overhead in right hand and bow extended before him in left hand. Reverse: LMLKB (Aramaic) (Aramaic) Lion attacking stag crouching right within dotted incuse square.
Mint and issuing power
Mint: Citium Ancient region Cyprus Modern country: Greece Authority: Baalram of Citium (Phoenician king of Citium, early 4th c. BC)
Chronology
From 400 BCE to 392 BCE Classical 480-323 BC Nomisma.org period
Physical description
Metal: Silver Nomisma.org Weight in grams: 11.0111.01 g <br />11,010 mg <br /> Denomination: double siglos Nomisma.org
Standard: Aeginetic
References
Coin reference: Seltman 1924b, n° 10, p. 6-7, pl. 3. Coin series reference: "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1BMC Cyprus, London, n° 71, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2Seltman 1924b, n° 10, p. 6-7, pl. 3, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3Tziambazis 2002, 28, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]4Zapiti - Michaelidou 2008

Overstruck type

Description
Obverse: Turtle. Reverse: Incuse square.
Mint and issuing power
Mint ᵖ: Aegina Ancient region ᵖ Aegina Modern country: Greece Authority ᵖ:
Chronology
From 480 BCE to 457 BCE Classical 480-323 BC Nomisma.org period
Physical description
Denomination ᵖ: stater Nomisma.org Standard ᵖ: Aeginetic
References
Coin type reference ᵖ: "[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]5HGC 6, n° 437, "[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]6Meadows (forthcoming), Groups IIa-IIb
Coin series web reference overstruck:
Additional data

References

  1. ^  Hill, George Francis (1904), A Catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum, vol XX : Cyprus, London, cxliv, 119 p., xxvi pl.,
  2. ^  Seltman, Charles T. (1924), A Hoard from Side, NNM 22, New York
  3. ^  Tziambazis, Elias (2002), A catalogue of the coins of Cyprus: from 560 B.C. to 1571 A.D., Larnaca, 89 p.
  4. ^  Zapiti, Eleni - Michaelidou, Lefki (2008), Coins of Cyprus : from the collection of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Nicosia, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 329 p.
  5. ^  Hoover, Oliver D. (2010), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, volume 6 : handbook of coins of the islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus), sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 358 p.
  6. ^  Meadows, Andrew (forthcoming), Greek coinage in the Persian Empire: The Malayer 1934 Hoard (IGCH 1790).