28577 - Leucas (stater Pegasus/Athena) over Heraclea Lucaniae (Athena/Heracles & lion) (Vilmar numismatics, inv. 18709)
From SILVER
350 BCE - 320 BCE | Λ
Location/history
Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Vilmar numismatics, inv. 18709 | |
Overstriking coin
Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Pegasos flying left | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Λ (Greek) Head of Athena to left, wearing Corinthian helmet, behind, wreath |
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Leucas | Ancient regionAncient region. | Acarnania | Modern countryModern country: Greece | 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. 350 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 320 BCE | Classical 480-323 BC ![]() |
Physical description
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver ![]() |
WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 8.468.46 g <br />8,460 mg <br /> | ||
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 2222 mm <br />2.2 cm <br /> |
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | BCD Akarnanien und Aetolien1BCD Akarnanien und Aetolien, n° 221, Calciati 19902Calciati 1990, n° 64, HGC 43HGC 4, n° 822 | |
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references: |
Overstruck type
Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of Athena r., wearing Attic helmet decorated with Scylla hurling stone | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ΗΡΑΚΛΗΙΩΝ (Greek) Heracles standing r., strangling the Nemean lion, between Heracles' leg |
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Heraclea Lucaniae | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Lucania | 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. 390 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 340 BCE | Classical 480-323 BC ![]() |
Physical description
DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ: | nomos |
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | HGC 14HGC 1, n° 988, HN Italy5HN Italy, n° 1376-1378 | ||
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck: |
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | rare and concentrated | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | sure |
RemarksRemarks: | "overstruck on a Heracles strangling lion nomos type of Lucanian Heraclea (cf. HGC 1, 988); traces of undertype visible on obverse above the Pegasus (lion) and below Pegasus’ neck (Heracles’ club). Overstrikes on Corinthian–type host coins are well known for the cities of Tarentum, Metapontum, and Thurium in the third century BC, but the present stater of Leucas is a rare example of Corinthian types struck over a south Italian host" |
References
- ^ Münzen & Medaillen (Deutschland). Sammlung BCD : Akarnanien und Aetolien. Auction 23, 18 October 2007, Stuttgart, 591 lots.
- ^ Calciati, Romolo (1990), Pegasi, Mortara, Edizioni I.P..
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2014), Handbook of Greek Coinage Series 4. Northern and Central Greece : Achaia Phthiotis, Ainis, Magnesia, Malis, Oita, Perrhaibia, Thessaly, Akarnania, Aitolia, Lokris, Phokis, Boiotia, Euboia, Attica, Megaris and Corinthia, sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, lxxi, 563 p.
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2018), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 1. Handbook of Coins of Italy and Magna Graecia, Sixth to First Centuries BC., Lancaster-London, 2018, lxi, 527 pages, 23 cm
- ^ Rutter N. Keith et alii (eds.) (2001), Historia Numorum Italy, London, xvi, 223 p., 43 pl.