24824 - Etenna (AE nymph/knife) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/bow) (Side Museum, Inv. 2771)

From SILVER
SILVER IDUnique ID of the page : 24824


100 BCE - 30 BCE | ET

Images
Overstriking coin
24824_-_Etenna_(AE_nymph-knife).png [1]
Overstruck variety
24824_-_Alexander_the_Great_(Heracles-bow).png [2]
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 Nomisma.org periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze Nomisma.org
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: Köker 2018, p. 182, fig. 1.a. Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: SNG Copenhagen Pisidia1SNG Copenhagen Pisidia, n° 146, SNG von Aulock Pisidien2SNG von Aulock Pisidien, n° 5018, SNG France 33SNG France 3, n° 1538-1540, Köker 20184Köker 2018, p. 182, fig. 1.a.
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. : Macedonia (uncertain mint) Ancient regionAncient region.  Macedon Modern countryModern country: Greece AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. : 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 Nomisma.org periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study : Price 19915Price 1991, 2800
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:

References

  1. ^  Breitenstein, Niels (1956), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collections of coins and medals. Danish National Museum, 32, Pisidia.
  2. ^  Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Sammlung v. Aulock. Pisidien - Lykaonien - Isaurien. 12 Heft (n° 4894-5412), Berlin, 1964.
  3. ^  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.
  4. ^  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
  5. ^  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.