2936 - Terone (tetradrachm amphora/incuse square) over Eretria (bull/octopus) (Nomos, 33, June 2024, 1137)

From SILVER
SILVER IDUnique ID of the page : 2936


490 BCE - 480 BCET-E (?)

Images
Overstriking coin
Terone_Nomos, _33, _9_June_2024, _1137.jpg [1]
Overstruck variety
Eretria_octopus.jpg [2]
Location/history
Sale(s)Sale(s) : Sotheby's New York, 21-22 June 1990, 355 = Nomos, 33, 9 June 2024, 1137
Private collection(s)Private collection(s) : Form the collections of Nelson Bunker Hunt and Jonathan H. Kagan Archaeological contextArchaeological context: from the Asyut find of 1969 (IGCH 1644), published in 1975

Overstriking coin

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: T-E (?) (Greek) Amphora with bunches of grapes. Border of dots. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: Quadripartite incuse square.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: Terone Ancient regionAncient region. Macedon 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. 490 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 480 BCE Classical 480-323 BC Nomisma.org periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver Nomisma.org WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 16.6616.66 g <br />16,660 mg <br /> DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm Nomisma.org
StandardStandard.: Thraco-Macedonian
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: Tselekas 2002, p. 30-40, n° A6, Price - Waggoner 1975, 48, n° 227 Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: Price - Waggoner 19751Price - Waggoner 1975, 48, n° 227, Hardwick 19982Hardwick 1998, n° 5, Tselekas 20023Tselekas 2002, p. 30-40, n° A6, HGC 3.14HGC 3.1, n° 705
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:

Overstruck type

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Cow left turning her head to scratch its nose with its left back hoof, within a circular border of dots (visible: head and hoof of cow). ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: Octopus within an incuse square (visible: head and tentacles of octopus).
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. : Eretria Ancient regionAncient region.  Euboea Modern countryModern country: Greece AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. :
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 500 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 465 BCE Archaic until 480 BC Nomisma.org, Classical 480-323 BC Nomisma.org periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. : tetradrachm Nomisma.org
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study : BCD Euboia5BCD Euboia, n° 310, HGC 46HGC 4, n° 1502
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: rare and spread Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: strong
RemarksRemarks: "Price-Waggoner 1975, 48 : Argue that the host coin is of Eretria. However, it could also be of Dikaia, a colony of Eretria near the Chalkidike, which issued coins with the same types" (Tselekas); "traces of being overstruck on a tetradrachm of Eretria, with a bull scratching his nose under the present obverse and with an octopus and Ε under the present reverse" (Alan Walker)

References

  1. ^  Price, Martin J. - Waggoner, Nancy M. (1975), Archaic Greek coinage : the Asyut hoard, Vecchi and Sons, London, 143 p.
  2. ^  Hardwick, Nicholas (1998), "The coinage of Terone from the fifth to the fourth centuries B.C.", in Ashton, Richard and Hurter, Silvia (eds), Studies in Greek numismatics in memory of Martin Jessop Price, Spink, London, p.119-134.
  3. ^  Tselekas, Panagiotis (2002), "Late archaic overstruck staters in the Chalkidike", Nomismatika Chronika 21, p. 30-40.
  4. ^  Hoover, Oliver D. (2016), Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. 3. Part I: Macedon, Illyria, and Epeiros, sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 437 p.
  5. ^  Numismatik Lanz München (2002), Münzen von Euboia : Sammlung BCD : im Luitpoldblock München, Maximiliansplatz 10, im eigenen Auktionssaal, Montag, 25. Nov., Dr. Hubert Lanz, Munich, 116p.
  6. ^  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.