3679 - Leucas (AE Chimera/man headed bull) over uncertain type (Nomos, Obolos, EA 4, Feb. 2016, 220.)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3679

280 BCE - 250 BCEMonogram ΛΕ

Images

Overstriking coin

Leucas_Nomos, _Obolos_4, _21_Febr._2016, _220.jpg [1]

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Nomos, Obolos, EA 4, 21 Feb. 2016, 220
Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ^ᵖ:	"From a European collection, formed before 2005"

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Monogram ΛΕ (Greek) Chimera left.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Head of bull with man face (Achelaos). In field, monogram (AΓ).

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. 280 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 250 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: 5.445.44 g <br />5,440 mg <br />		AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 33 mm <br />0.3 cm <br />
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 1919 mm <br />1.9 cm <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:	https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2951495	Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	BMC Thessaly1BMC Thessaly, n° 15-18, p.175, HGC 42HGC 4, n° 862
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/leucas.bmc.15-20

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Mint and issuing power

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

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Modern countryModern country:

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

Chronology

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

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	frequent	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:	"Traces of overstriking"

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.
^ 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.