200 BCE - 30 BCE | ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ
Overstriking coin
SO 2163 - Heracleia Pontica over Herakleia Pontika.jpg
Overstruck variety
Heracleia_Pontica_Dionysus_monogram.jpg
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Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ:
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Savoca, EA 104, 30 May 2021, 79
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Herakles right, wearing laurel wreath.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ (Greek) Table draped with lionskin and surmounted by bow and quiver. club on ground before. In left field, ΔI monogram.
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Heracleia Pontica
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Bithynia
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Modern countryModern country: Turkey
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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. 200 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 30 BCE
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Hellenistic 323-30 BC  periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 2.282.28 g <br />2,280 mg <br />
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| DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 1717 mm <br />1.7 cm <br />
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References
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Dionysos right, wearing lion skin.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ (Greek) Legend and monogram.
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Mint and issuing power
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 300 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 200 BCE
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Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
References
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:
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exceptional
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Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
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strong
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| RemarksRemarks:
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"Overstruck on a previous (3rd century BC) issue of the same city: Head of Dionysos right, wearing lion skin / HP[AKΛEΩ]TAN around monogram of ΣA or ΣO"
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References
- ^ Price, Martin J. (1993), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea, London, [132] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
