2936 - Terone (tetradrachm amphora/incuse square) over Eretria (bull/octopus) (Nomos, 33, June 2024, 1137)
From SILVER
490 BCE - 480 BCET-E (?)
Location/history
| Sale(s) ᵖ: | Sotheby's New York, 21-22 June 1990, 355 = Nomos, 33, 9 June 2024, 1137 | ||
| Private collection(s) ᵖ: | Form the collections of Nelson Bunker Hunt and Jonathan H. Kagan | Archaeological context: | from the Asyut find of 1969 (IGCH 1644), published in 1975 |
Overstriking coin
Description
| Obverse: | T-E (?) (Greek) Amphora with bunches of grapes. Border of dots. | Reverse: | Quadripartite incuse square. |
Mint and issuing power
| Mint: | Terone | Ancient region | Macedon | Modern country: Greece | Authority: |
Chronology
| From 490 BCE to 480 BCE | Classical 480-323 BC  period
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Physical description
| Metal: Silver
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Weight in grams: 16.6616.66 g <br />16,660 mg <br /> | Denomination: tetradrachm
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| Standard: Thraco-Macedonian | |||
References
| Coin reference: | Tselekas 2002, p. 30-40, n° A6, Price - Waggoner 1975, 48, n° 227 | Coin series reference: | "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1Price - Waggoner 1975, 48, n° 227, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2Hardwick 1998, n° 5, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3Tselekas 2002, p. 30-40, n° A6, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]4HGC 3.1, n° 705 |
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Overstruck type
Description
| 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). | Reverse: | Octopus within an incuse square (visible: head and tentacles of octopus). |
Mint and issuing power
| Mint ᵖ: | Eretria | Ancient region ᵖ | Euboea | Modern country: Greece | Authority ᵖ: |
Chronology
| From 500 BCE to 465 BCE | Archaic until 480 BC , Classical 480-323 BC period
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Physical description
| Denomination ᵖ: | tetradrachm
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References
| Coin type reference ᵖ: | "[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]5BCD Euboia, n° 310, "[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]6HGC 4, n° 1502 | ||
| Coin series web reference overstruck: | |||
Additional data
| Frequency of overstrikes: | rare and spread | Level of confidence: | strong |
| Remarks: | "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
- ^ Price, Martin J. - Waggoner, Nancy M. (1975), Archaic Greek coinage : the Asyut hoard, Vecchi and Sons, London, 143 p.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Tselekas, Panagiotis (2002), "Late archaic overstruck staters in the Chalkidike", Nomismatika Chronika 21, p. 30-40.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
