SO 545 - Histiaea over Aegina?
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400 BCE - 300 BCE | IΣΤI
Images
Overstriking coin
Histiaea.jpg [1]
Overstruck variety
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SO 1489 - Aegina (didrachm) over uncertain type.jpg
Location/history
| Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Numismatik Lanz München, 111, 25 Nov. 2002, 491. | |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of Nymph Histiaia right. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | IΣΤI (Greek) Forepart of bull right. In field, kantharos. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Histiaea | Ancient regionAncient region. | Euboea | 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. 400 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 300 BCE | Classical 480-323 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: 2.192.19 g <br />2,190 mg <br /> | AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 55 mm <br />0.5 cm <br /> | |
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | Babelon 1901-19321Babelon 1901-1932, Tome 3, Part 2, n° 193-195, BMC Central Greece2BMC Central Greece, n° 19 var. 2,19 | |
| Coin series web referenceCoin series web references: | |||
Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Sea turtle. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Incuse square with 'mill-sail' device |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Aegina | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Aegina | Modern countryModern country: Greece | 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. 525 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 475 BCE | Classical 480-323 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
References
| Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | SNG Delepierre3SNG Delepierre, n° 1580-1589, HGC 64HGC 6, n° 429, Meadows (forthcoming)5Meadows (forthcoming), Groups IIa-IIc. | ||
| Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck: | |||
Additional data
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | exceptional | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | |
| RemarksRemarks: | "This coin is probably overstruck on a bronze of Aegina (see BMC Attica, pl. XXV, 11-14). Traces of the incuse square can be seen on the obverse behind the nymph's head. " | ||
References
- ^ Babelon, Ernest (1901-1932), Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines, Paris, E. Leroux
- ^ Head, Barclay Vincent, Poole, Reginald Stuart (1884), British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins : Central Greece (Locris, Phocis, Boetia and Euboea), London, lxix, 158 p., 24 pl.
- ^ Nicolet-Pierre, Hélène (1983), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, France, Bibliothèque Nationale, Collection Jean et Marie Delepierre, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, pl. 88.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Meadows, Andrew (forthcoming), Greek coinage in the Persian Empire: The Malayer 1934 Hoard (IGCH 1790).
