3074 - Thessalonica (Aesillas) (tetradrachm Alexander/club) over Athens (Athena/owl) (München, MK)

Coin reference:	Callataÿ 2021a, p. 284, n° 5	Coin series reference:	"[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1Bauslaugh 2000, dies O9-R47, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2HGC 3.1, n° 1110, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3Callataÿ 2021a, p. 284, n° 5
Coin series web reference:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/macedonians aesillas bauslaugh.2000.i-vi

Overstruck type

Description

Obverse:

Head of Athena.

Reverse:

Owl on amphora (visible: parts of the wreath).

Mint and issuing power

Mint ^ᵖ:

Athens

Ancient region ^ᵖ

Attica

Modern country: Greece

Authority ^ᵖ:

Chronology

From 166 BCE to 70 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

period

Physical description

Denomination ^ᵖ:

tetradrachm

Standard ^ᵖ:

Attic

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.]]4Thompson 1961

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikes:	rare and concentrated	Level of confidence:	weak
Remarks:	some parts of the wreath on the obverse

References

^ Bauslaugh, Robert A. (2000), Silver coinage with the types of Aesillas the Quaestor, Numismatic Studies 22, New York.
^ 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.
^ Callataÿ, François de (2021), “On pattern and purpose of overstrikes of late Hellenistic tetradrachms in Thrace Macedonia”, in Ulrike Peter and Vladimir Stolba (eds.), Thrace. Local coinage and regional identity, Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 77, Berlin, Topoi, p. 263-289.
^ Thompson, Margaret (1961), The new style silver coinage of Athens, Numismatic Studies 10, New York, 2 vol.