28385 - Tingis (AE Baal-Melqart/two grain ears) over Tauromenium (Heracles/bull) (New York, ANS, 1979.189.9)
From SILVER
50 BCE - 1 BCE
Location/history
| Museum collectionMuseum collection: | New York, ANS, 1979.189.9 | |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of Baal-Melqart left | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Two grain ears, inverted crescent and pellet below |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Tingis | Ancient regionAncient region. | Mauretania | Modern countryModern country: Marocco | 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. 50 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 1 BCE | Hellenistic 323-30 BC  , Roman from 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: 13.8413.84 g <br />13,840 mg <br /> | AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 1111 mm <br />1.1 cm <br /> | |
| DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 3131 mm <br />3.1 cm <br /> | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | Mazard 19551Mazard 1955, n° 153 |
Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Bearded head of Heracles r. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ΤΑΥΡΟΜΕΝΙΤΑΝ (Greek) Bull butting r. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Tauromenium | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Sicily | Modern countryModern country: Italy | AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ᵖ: |
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 265 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 263 BCE | Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
References
| Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | Calciati 19872Calciati 1987, p. 218-219, n° 19-20 OS, SNG ANS 5 Sicily3SNG ANS 5 Sicily, n° 1133-1135, HGC 24HGC 2, n° 1579, Puglisi 20095Puglisi 2009, p. 337, n° 379 | ||
| Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck: | |||
Additional data
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | exceptional | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | weak |
| RemarksRemarks: | nb: not the city of Lixus as indicated on MANTIS but a difficult case to idnetify the overstriking type (the overstruck as Tauromenium is paradoxically clearer) | ||
References
- ^ Mazard, Jean (1955), Corpus nummorum Numidiae Mauretaniaeque, Arts et métiers graphiques, Paris, 265p.
- ^ Calciati, Romolo (1987), Corpus nummorum siculorum. La monetazione di bronzo/The bronze coinage, vol. 3, Milan, Edizioni G. M.
- ^ Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum ANS 5. The Collection of the American Numismatic Society. Sicily 3. Syracuse-Siceliotes, New York, 1988,
- ^ 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.
- ^ Puglisi, Mariangela (2009), La Sicilia da Dionisio I a Sesto Pompeo : circolazione e funzione della moneta, Messina, DiScAM, p. 519.
