25627 - Argos Amphilochicum (AE male head/dog) over uncertain type (Kremydi-Sicilianou 2000, 4)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 25627

300 BCE - 200 BCEΑΡΓΕΙΩΝ

Images

Overstriking coin

Location/history

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

ΑΡΓΕΙΩΝ (Greek) Male head

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Standing dog

Mint and issuing power

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

Argos Amphilochicum

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.. 200 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

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:	Kremydi-Sicilianou 2000, n°4	Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	"[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1BMC Thessaly, n°7, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2BCD Akarnanien und Aetolien, n°143-146, 163.1-163.4, 164.1-4, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3HGC 4, n°789
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/argos amphilochicum.bmc.1-7

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:	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.
^ Münzen & Medaillen (Deutschland). Sammlung BCD : Akarnanien und Aetolien. Auction 23, 18 October 2007, Stuttgart, 591 lots.
^ 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.