90 BCE - 70 BCE | HΡAKΛEOΥΣ - ΣΩTHΡOΣ / ΘAΣIΩN
Overstriking coin
SO 394 - Thasos over uncertain mint.jpg
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Overstruck variety
Aesillas 2nd group.jpg
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Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ:
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Hirsch, 32, 22-24 Oct. 1962, 2334 = Hirsch, 309, 7 May 2005, 91 = Künker, 326, 7 Oct. 2019, 748 = Künker, EA 65, 23 Feb. 2021, 7028
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Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of youthful Dionysos to right, wearing tainia and wreath of ivy and fruit.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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HΡAKΛEOΥΣ - ΣΩTHΡOΣ / ΘAΣIΩN (Greek) Herakles standing front, head to left, holding club in his right hand and lion skin draped over his left arm and shoulder
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Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Thasos
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Thrace
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Modern countryModern country: Greece
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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:
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Roman Republic
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Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 90 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 70 BCE
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Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 16.7916.79 g <br />16,790 mg <br />
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DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm
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StandardStandard.: Attic
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References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin:
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Callataÿ 1998, p. 114, note 45, Callataÿ 2021a, p. 282, n° 14
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Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:
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Prokopov 20061Prokopov 2006, Groupe XIII, obv. BB7, HGC 62HGC 6, n° 359, Callataÿ 2021a3Callataÿ 2021a, p. 282, n° 14
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Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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MAKEΔONΩN (Greek) Head of Alexander the Great to right, with horn of Ammon over his ear
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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AESILLAS (Latin) Money chest, club, and chair, all within wreath
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Mint and issuing power
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 85 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 60 BCE
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Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ:
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tetradrachm
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StandardStandard. ᵖ:
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Attic
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References
References
- ^ Prokopov, Ilya (2006), Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jahrhundert v. Chr., Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin, 342 p., 118 p. of plates
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2010), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, volume 6 : handbook of coins of the islands: Adriatic, Iionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus), sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 358 p.
- ^ Callataÿ, François de (2021), “On pattern and purpose of overstrikes of late Hellenistic tetradrachms in Thrace Macedonia”, in Ulrike Peter and Bernhard Weisser (eds.), Thrace. Local coinage and regional identity, Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 77, Berlin, Topoi, p. 263-289.
- ^ Callataÿ, François de (1996), "Les monnaies au nom d'Aesillas", in T. Hackens (ed.), Italiam Fato Profugi Hesperinaque Venerunt Litora. Numismatic Studies Dedicated to Vladimir and Elvira Eliza Clain-Stefanelli, Numismatica Lovaniensia 12, Louvain-la-Neuve, p. 113-151.
- ^ Bauslaugh, Robert A. (2000), Silver coinage with the types of Aesillas the Quaestor, Numismatic Studies 22, New York.