29098 - Smyrna (AE Apollo/Homer) over uncertain type (New York, ANS, 1944.100.46926))

From SILVER


75 BCE - 30 BCE | ΣΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ

Images
Overstriking coin
Smyrna_New_York,_American_Numismatic_Society,_1944.100.46926.jpg
Location/history
Museum collection: New York, American Numismatic Society, 1944.100.46926 – Newell (IV/37)

Overstriking coin

Description
Obverse: Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath. All within laurel wreath. Reverse: ΣΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ (Greek) Homer seated left, holding staff and scroll
Mint and issuing power
Mint: Smyrna Ancient region Ionia Modern country: Turkey Authority:
Chronology
From 75 BCE to 30 BCE Hellenistic 323-30 BC Nomisma.org period
Physical description
Metal: Bronze Nomisma.org Weight in grams: 7.137.13 g <br />7,130 mg <br /> Axis: 1212 mm <br />1.2 cm <br />
Diameter: 2424 mm <br />2.4 cm <br />
References
Coin reference: Coin series reference: "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1BMC Ionia, p. 247, n° 116-117, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2SNG Copenhagen Ionia 3, n° 1207, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3Milne 1927
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Overstruck type

Description
Obverse: Reverse:
Mint and issuing power
Mint ᵖ: Ancient region ᵖ Modern country: Authority ᵖ:
Chronology
From to period
Physical description
References
Coin type reference ᵖ:

References

  1. ^  Head, V. Barclay (1892), A Catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. vol. XIV : Ionia, London, The Trustees, p. 453, pl. XXXIX.
  2. ^  Breitenstein, Niels (1946), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum, 24. Ionia, Part 3. Smyrna - Teos. Islands, Copenhagen, Einar Munksgaard
  3. ^  Milne, Joseph Grafton (1927), “The Autonomous coinage of Smyrna,” The Numismatic Chronicle, ser. 5, Vol. 3 (1923), p. 1-30, pls. I-II Vol. 7 (1927), p. 1-107, pls. I-V Vol. 8 (1928), p. 131-171, pls. VII-VIII