3412 - Mesembria (Alexander the Great) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus - Karayotov O76) over First Macedon (Artemis/club) (New York, ANS, 1944.100.35789)

Overstrike Database

SILVER ID ^ᵖ: 3412

110 BCE - 80 BCE | BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ AΛΕΞANΔΡΟΥ

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Overstriking coin

Overstruck variety

Location/history

Museum collection:	New York, American Numismatic Society, 1944.100.35789	Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Schulman, May 1927
Private collection(s) ^ᵖ:	E. T. Newell collection

Overstriking coin

Description

Obverse:

Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress.

Reverse:

BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ AΛΕΞANΔΡΟΥ (Greek) Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter. Under the throne, ΑΛ. In left field, Corinthian crested helmet.

Mint and issuing power

Mint:

Mesembria

Ancient region

Thrace

Modern country: Bulgaria

Authority:

Alexander III the Great (Argead king, 336-323 BC)

Chronology

From 110 BCE to 80 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

period

Physical description

Metal: Silver	Weight in grams: 16.4816.48 g <br />16,480 mg <br />	Denomination: tetradrachm	Axis: 1212 mm <br />1.2 cm <br />
Diameter: 35.535.5 mm <br />3.55 cm <br />		Standard: Attic

References

Coin reference:

Coin series reference:

"[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1Price 1991, n° 1029, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2Karayotov 1992, n° 333, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3Karayotov 1994, p. 107, n° 701 (O76-R256 monogram 82), "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]4Callataÿ 1994b, p. 334, D28/R2a, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]5Callataÿ 1997a, p. 102, D28/R2a, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]6MacDonald 2009, p. 214, n° 16, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]7Callataÿ 2021a, p. 277, n° 20

Overstruck type

Description

Obverse:

(visible: small head of Artemis on the cheek of Herakles).

Reverse:

Mint and issuing power

Mint ^ᵖ:

Ancient region ^ᵖ

Macedon

Modern country:

Authority ^ᵖ:

Macedonia First Meris (Roman Province), Roman province of Macedonia

Chronology

From 167 BCE to 148 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

period

Physical description

Denomination ^ᵖ:

tetradrachm

Standard ^ᵖ:

Attic

References

Coin type reference ^ᵖ:

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikes:	exceptional	Level of confidence:	weak
Remarks:

References

^ Price, Martin Jessop (1991), The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus: a British Museum Catalogue, 2 vol., Zürich-London, 637 p., 637 p., clix pl.
^ Karayotov, Ivan (1992), Mонетосеченето на Mесамбрия, Спектър - АЛ, Burgas, 130 p.
^ Karayotov, Ivan (1994), The coinage of Mesambria. vol. 1: silver and gold coins of Mesambria, Centre of Underwater Archaeology, Sozopol, 134 p. and 44 pl.
^ Callataÿ, François de (1994), "Les derniers alexandres posthumes frappés à Odessos et Mésembria", in Settlement Life in Ancient Thrace. IIIrd International Symposium "Cabyle", 17-21 May 1993, Jambol (Bulgaria), p. 300-342
^ Callataÿ, François de (1997), L'histoire des guerres mithridatiques vue par les monnaies, Numismatica Lovaniensia 18, Louvain-la-Neuve, XIII + 481 p. et 54 pl.
^ MacDonald, David (2009), Overstruck Greek coins: studies in Greek chronology and monetary theory, Whitman Publishing, Atlanta.
^ 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.