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)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Sotheby's New York, 21-22 June 1990, 355 = Nomos, 33, 9 June 2024, 1137 | ||
Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ᵖ: | 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 ![]() |
Physical description
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver ![]() |
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 ![]() |
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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. ᵖ: | Eretria | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Euboea | Modern countryModern country: Greece | 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. 500 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 465 BCE | Archaic until 480 BC ![]() ![]() |
Physical description
DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ: | tetradrachm ![]() |
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | 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
- ^ 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.