22344 - Citium (Azbaal) (double siglos Heracles/lion & stag) over Aegina (turtle/incuse square) (CNG, EA 547, Oct. 2023, 316)
From SILVER
449 BCE - 420 BCE
Location/history
Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Classical Numismatic Group, EA 547, 4 Oct. 2023, 316 | |
Overstriking coin
Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Herakles, wearing lion skin, in fighting stance right, holding club and bow | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Lion attacking stag crouching right in dotted square within incuse square |
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Citium | Ancient regionAncient region. | Cyprus | 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: | Azbaal of Citium (Phoenician king of Citium and Idalium, 5th c BC) |
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 449 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 420 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 | WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 11.1911.19 g <br />11,190 mg <br /> | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: double siglos | AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 1212 mm <br />1.2 cm <br /> |
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 21.521.5 mm <br />2.15 cm <br /> | StandardStandard.: Persian |
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | Tziambazis 20021 , Zapiti - Michaelidou 20082 |
Overstruck type
Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Turtle | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Union Jack incuse square |
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Aegina | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Attica | Modern countryModern country: Greece | 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. 480 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 457 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: | stater | StandardStandard. ᵖ: | Aeginetic |
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | HGC 63 , Meadows (forthcoming)4 | ||
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck: |
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | frequent | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | sure |
RemarksRemarks: | "overstruck on a stater of Aegina (cf. HGC 6, 437)" |
References
- ^ Tziambazis, Elias (2002), A catalogue of the coins of Cyprus: from 560 B.C. to 1571 A.D., Larnaca, 89 p.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Meadows, Andrew (forthcoming), Greek coinage in the Persian Empire: The Malayer 1934 Hoard (IGCH 1790).