250 BCE - 220 BCE | KOINON
Overstriking coin
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Overstruck variety
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Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ:
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Roma Numismatics, EA 1, 25 July 2018, 238
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Zeus-Ammon right, wearing tainia.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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KOINON (Greek) Silphium plant.
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Cyrene
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Cyrenaica
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Modern countryModern country: Libya
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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:
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Cyrenean league
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 250 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 220 BCE
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Hellenistic 323-30 BC  periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 7.197.19 g <br />7,190 mg <br />
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DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: hemiobol
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AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 33 mm <br />0.3 cm <br />
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| DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 2323 mm <br />2.3 cm <br />
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StandardStandard.: Ptolemaic
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References
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Ptolemy I right.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ (Greek) Personification of Libya.
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Mint and issuing power
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 246 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 221 BCE
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Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ:
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hemiobol
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References
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:
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rare and concentrated
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Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
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sure
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| RemarksRemarks:
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"for undertype: Svoronos 871; SNG Copenhagen 442; Köln 65. 7.19g, 23mm, 3h. The undertype obverse, featuring a portrait of Ptolemy I facing right, is almost entirely obliterated beneath the head of Zeus-Ammon from the overtype: both are aligned on the same axis. More obvious is the personification of Libya of the reverse undertype (this time on an axis 90° anticlockwise of the overtype) and the legend BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAIOY around it"
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References
- ^ Robinson, E. S. G. (1927), A Catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum, vol. XXIX : Cyrenaica, London, The Trustees, p. 154, pl. 47.
- ^ Svoronos, Ioannes N. (1904-1908), Τὰ νομίσματα τοῦ κράτους τῶν Πτολεμαίων (Ta nomismata tou kratous tōn Ptolemaiōn - The coins of the Ptolemaic rulers), Athens, 4 v., 68 pl.
- ^ Lorber, Catharine C. (2018), Coins of the Ptolemaic empire : Part I. Ptolemy I through Ptolemy IV, 2 vol., New York.
