24824 - Etenna (AE nymph/knife) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/bow) (Side Museum, Inv. 2771)
From SILVER
100 BCE - 30 BCE | ET
Location/history
Museum collectionMuseum collection: | Side Museum, Inv. No. 2771. | |
Overstriking coin
Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Nymph facing, with serpent wrapped around her. Behind, overturned oinochoe. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ET (Greek) Sickle-shaped knife. |
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Etenna | Ancient regionAncient region. | Pisidia | Modern countryModern country: Turkey | 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: |
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 100 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 30 BCE | Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object. |
Physical description
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze | |||
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Köker 2018, p. 182, fig. 1.a. | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | SNG Copenhagen Pisidia1 , SNG von Aulock Pisidien2 , SNG France 33 , Köker 20184 |
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references: |
Overstruck type
Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of beardless Heracles right wearing lion skin headdress. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ (Greek) Bow in bow-case and club |
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Macedonia (uncertain mint) | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Macedon | Modern countryModern country: Greece | AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ᵖ: | Alexander III the Great (Argead king, 336-323 BC) |
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 323 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 310 BCE | Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object. |
Physical description
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | Price 19915 | ||
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck: |
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | ||
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References
- ^ Breitenstein, Niels (1956), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collections of coins and medals. Danish National Museum, 32, Pisidia.
- ^ Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Sammlung v. Aulock. Pisidien - Lykaonien - Isaurien. 12 Heft (n° 4894-5412), Berlin, 1964.
- ^ Levante, Edoardo [with the collaboration of Peter Weiss] (2001), Sylloge nummorum graecorum. France. 3, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques : Pamphylie, Pisidie, Lyaconie, Galatie, Paris-Zürich, Bibliothèque nationale de France-Numismatica Ars Classica, XXXIV + 293 p. and 146 pl.
- ^ Koker, Hüseyin (2018), "Overstruck Coins of Etenna", in O. Tekin (ed.), Second International Congress on the of History of Money and Numismatics in the Mediterranean World, 5-8 January 2017, Antalya, p. 175-184
- ^ Price, Martin Jessop (1991), The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus: a British Museum Catalogue, 2 vol., Zürich-London, 637 p., 637 p., clix pl.