455 BCE - 430 BCE | ΛΕΟΝΤΙΝΟΝ
Overstriking coin
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Overstruck variety
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath. Border of dots.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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ΛΕΟΝΤΙΝΟΝ (Greek) Lion head right with open jaw surrounded by three barley corns and a cithara.
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Leontini
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Sicily
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Modern countryModern country: Italy
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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:
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 455 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 430 BCE
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Classical 480-323 BC  periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 16.9816.98 g <br />16,980 mg <br />
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DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm
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StandardStandard.: Attic
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References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin:
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Garraffo 1984, p. 135, n° 3, pl. XVII, n° 5, Fischer-Bossert 2016, p. 121
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Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:
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Garraffo 19841Garraffo 1984, p. 135, n° 3, pl. XVII, n° 5, Boehringer 19982Boehringer 1998, n° 56, HGC 23HGC 2, n° 672, Fischer-Bossert 20164Fischer-Bossert 2016, p. 121
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| Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Man-faced bull (river god Amenanos) half-kneeling right on tunny fish right, peacock above
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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KATANAION (Greek) Nike rushing right.
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ:
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Catana
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Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ
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Sicily
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Modern countryModern country: Italy
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AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ᵖ:
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 461 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 445 BCE
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Classical 480-323 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ:
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tetradrachm
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StandardStandard. ᵖ:
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Attic
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References
References
- ^ Garraffo, Salvatore (1984), Le riconiazioni in Magna Grecia e in Sicilia. Emissioni argentee dal VI al IV secolo a.C., Catania.
- ^ Boehringer, Christof (1998), "Zur Muenzgeschichte von Leontinoi in klassischer Zeit", in: Ashton, Richard - Hurter, Silvia (eds), Studies in Greek numismatics in memory of Martin Jessop Price, London, Spink, p.43-53.
- a b 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.
- a b Fischer-Bossert, Wolfgang (2016), "Leontinoi, Selinus, Katane : zwei Überprägungen", in Lavinia Sole and Sebastiano Tusa (eds), Nomismata: studi di numismatica offerti ad Aldina Cutroni Tusa per il suo novantatreesimo compleanno, Ragusa : Ed. di Storia e Studi Sociali, p. 107-123.
- ^ Kraay, Colin M. - Hirmer, Max (1996), Greek coins, New York, H. N. Abrams, p. 396.
- ^ Arniold-Biucchi, Carmen (1990), The Randazzo hoard 1980 and Sicilian chronology in the early fifth century B.C., Numismatic Studies 18, New York, 77 p., 20 pl.
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