3322 - Thebes (stater Boeotian shield/Dionysus) over Elis (Zeus/eagle) (Triton, IX, Jan. 2006, 441)

From SILVER
SILVER IDUnique ID of the page : 3322


425 BCE - 395 BCE | Θ-E

Images
Overstriking coin
Thebes_shield_dionysos.jpg [1]
Overstruck variety
Elis_(under_Thebes).jpg [2]
Location/history
Sale(s)Sale(s) : Schweizerischer Bankverein, 38, 12 Sept. 1995, 156 = Triton, IX, 10 Jan. 2006, 441 = Classical Numismatic Group, 108, 16 May 2018, 131

Overstriking coin

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Boiotian shield ornamented with club. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: Θ-E (Greek) Head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath, within incuse square.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: Thebes Ancient regionAncient region. Boeotia 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. 425 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 395 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: 12.1312.13 g <br />12,130 mg <br /> DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: stater Nomisma.org
StandardStandard.: Aeginetic
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: Babelon 1914, n° 241, HGC 4, n° 1325 Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: Babelon 1901-19321Babelon 1901-1932, Tome 3, Part 2, n° 241, HGC 42HGC 4, n° 1325
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:

Overstruck type

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Eagle flying left with both wings above his body, grasping a hare by the belly with his talons and tearing at him with his beak ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: Ϝ - Α (Greek) Thunderbolt with wings above and volutes below
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. : Elis Ancient regionAncient region.  Peloponnesus 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. 468 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 452 BCE 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. : stater Nomisma.org
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study : Seltman 19213Seltman 1921, n° 32, BCD Peloponnesos4BCD Peloponnesos, n° 20 (this coin)
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: exceptional Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: strong
RemarksRemarks: "Overstruck on a stater of Elis-Olympia with obverse type eagle flying left, animal in its talons. [...] This coin and lot 397 above may have been part of a consignment of Peloponnesian staters sent north during the war so that they could be converted to Boiotian currency to better serve the military plans of the Allies against Athens. The obverse dies of the undertype could only be Seltman, Temple, BD, BE or BG, all three of them belonging to the plentiful issues struck just before the beginning of the Peloponnesian war. "

References

  1. ^  Babelon, Ernest (1901-1932), Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines, Paris, E. Leroux
  2. ^  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.
  3. ^  Seltman, Charles T. (1921), The temple coins of Olympia, Cambridge, ix, [1], 117 p. : 1 ill. ; 25 x 19 cm. and XII pl.
  4. ^  LHS Numismatics, 96 (Coins of Peloponnesos. The BCD Collection), 8-9 May 2006 (1775 lots)