60 BCE - 40 BCE | PEΛΣΕΗΟΘΗΕΛΣΗΣEPΗΛ ? (sic)
Overstriking coin
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Overstruck variety
2296 - Thasos (tetradrachm) over Athens 126-125 BCE (MacDonald 2009, 104) overstruck variety.jpg
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of youthful Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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PEΛΣΕΗΟΘΗΕΛΣΗΣEPΗΛ ? (sic) Herakles facing, head left, holding club and lion skin. In field, monogram.
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Thasos
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Thrace
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Modern countryModern country: Greece
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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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Roman Republic
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 60 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 40 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.: Silver
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 16.2616.26 g <br />16,260 mg <br />
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DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm
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AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 11 mm <br />0.1 cm <br />
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StandardStandard.: Attic
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References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin:
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MacDonald 2003, p. 31-39, n° 3, MacDonald 2009, p. 143, n° 106
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Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:
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MacDonald 20031MacDonald 2003, p. 31-39, n° 3, Prokopov 20062Prokopov 2006, MacDonald 20093MacDonald 2009, p. 143, n° 106, HGC 64HGC 6, n° 359
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Athena right, wearing helmet.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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ΑΘΕ (Greek) Owl standing on amphora. In field, ΕΠΙΓΕΝΗΣ-ΣΩΣΑΝΔΡΟΣ
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ:
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Athens
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Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ
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Attica
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Modern countryModern country: Greece
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AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ᵖ:
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 126 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 125 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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tetradrachm
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StandardStandard. ᵖ:
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Attic
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References
References
- ^ MacDonald, David (2003), "A Group of Thasian type tetradrachms overstruck on Athenian New Style tetradrachms," Nomismatika Chronika 22, p. 31-39.
- ^ Prokopov, Ilya (2006), Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jahrhundert v. Chr., Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin, 342 p., 118 p. of plates
- ^ Macdonald, David (2009), Overstruck Greek coins: studies in Greek chronology and monetary theory, Whitman Publishing, Atlanta.
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2010), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, volume 6 : handbook of coins of the islands: Adriatic, Iionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus), sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 358 p.
- ^ Thompson, Margaret (1961), The new style silver coinage of Athens, Numismatic Studies 10, New York, 2 vol.
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