3521 - Leucas (AE Chimera/Athena) over Philip II (Apollo/rider) (Athens, NM, Postolakkas 722)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3521

300 BCE - 270 BCE | Λ

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Overstriking coin

Overstruck variety

Location/history

Museum collectionMuseum collection:	Athens, Numismatic Museum, Mουρούζη Ποστολάκκας collection 722.
Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ^ᵖ:	Mουρούζη Ποστολάκκας collection

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Chimera left.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Λ Head of Athena left, wearing Corinthian helmet.

Mint and issuing power

MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:

Leucas

Ancient regionAncient region.

Acarnania

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. 300 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 270 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 6.826.82 g <br />6,820 mg <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:	Kremydi-Sicilianou 2000, n° 6α.	Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	BMC Thessaly1BMC Thessaly, n° 1-10, p. 174, SNG Copenhagen 32SNG Copenhagen 3, n°367, Kremydi-Sicilianou 20003Kremydi-Sicilianou 2000, n° 6α, HGC 44HGC 4, n° 859
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/leucas.bmc.1-14

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Apollo, wearing laurel wreath.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

(ΦΙΛΙ)ΠΠΟΥ (Greek) Horseman right.

Mint and issuing power

MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ^ᵖ:

Macedonia (uncertain mint)

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Macedon

Modern countryModern country: Greece

AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ^ᵖ:

Philip II (Argead king, 359-336 BC), Macedonian kingdom

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 359 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 336 BCE

Classical ^{480-323 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:

SNG ANS 8 Macedonia 25SNG ANS 8 Macedonia 2, n° 919, HGC 3.16HGC 3.1, n° 883

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	frequent	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:	sure
RemarksRemarks:

References

^ Gardner, Percy (1883), A Catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. vol. V : Thessaly to Aetolia, London, The Trustees, p. 234, pl. 32.
^ SNG Copenhagen 3. Thessaly-Illyricum. Epirus-Acarnania. Aetolia-Euboea. Attica-Aegina. Corinth. Philiasia-Laconia. Argolis-Aegean Islands, Copenhagen, 1982.
^ Kremydi-Sicilianou, Sophia (2000), "Makedonia chai Akarnania : e chrese Makedonikon Chalkon gia ten kope Akarnanikon ekdoseon" (Macedonia and Acarnania : Acarnanian coins struck on Macedonian bronzes), Nomisma oto Makedoniko choro praktika v'epistemonikes synanteses ... [et al], Thessalonique, p. 61-77.
^ 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.
^ Troxell, Hyla A. (1994), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum ANS 8. The Collection of the American Numismatic Society. Macedonia 2. Alexander I - Philip II, 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.