26195 - Sicily (uncertain Roman mint) (AE Heracles/boar) over Syracuse (Poseidon/trident) (Herbert Grün, 64, Nov. 2014, 2424)
From SILVER
211 BCE - 210 BCE | ROMA
Location/history
Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Heidelberger Münzhandlung Herbert Grün, 64, 20 Nov. 2014, 2424 | |
Overstriking coin
Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of Hercules, right, wearing boar-skin. Behind, three pellets. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ROMA (Latin) Bull charging right, below, snake. Above, corn-ear, three pellets |
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Sicily (uncertain Roman mint) | Ancient regionAncient region. | Sicily | Modern countryModern country: Italy | 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. 211 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 210 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 | WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 6.136.13 g <br />6,130 mg <br /> | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: quadrans | |
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | BMCRR1 , RRC2 | |
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references: |
Overstruck type
Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of Poseidon, left | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | IEPONOΣ (Greek) Trident |
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Syracuse | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Sicily | Modern countryModern country: Italy | AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ᵖ: | Hieron II of Syracuse (tyrant of Syracuse, 270-215 BC) |
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 240 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 215 BCE | Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object. |
Physical description
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | Calciati 19863 , Puglisi 20094 , HGC 25 | ||
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: | "überprägt auf einer Bronze von Hieron II" |
References
- ^ Grueber, Herbert A. (1910), Coins of the Roman Republic in the British museum, Trustees of the British Museum Pubs., vol.3, pl.123
- ^ Crawford, Michael H. (1974), Roman Republican Coinage, Cambridge
- ^ Calciati, Romolo (1986), Corpus nummorum siculorum. La monetazione di bronzo/The bronze coinage, vol. 2, Milan, Edizioni G. M.
- ^ Puglisi, Mariangela (2009), La Sicilia da Dionisio I a Sesto Pompeo : circolazione e funzione della moneta, Messina, DiScAM, p. 519.
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2012), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series. 2. Handbook of the Coins of Sicily (Including Lipara). Civic, Royal, Siculo-Punic, and Romano-Sicilian Issues. Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster-London, 489 p.