3521 - Leucas (AE Chimera/Athena) over Philip II (Apollo/rider) (Athens, NM, Postolakkas 722)
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300 BCE - 270 BCE | Λ
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 Thessaly1 , SNG Copenhagen 32 , Kremydi-Sicilianou 20003 , HGC 44 |
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references: |
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 25 , HGC 3.16 |
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.