3258 - Apollonia (Macedonia) (AE Dionysus/amphora) over Macedonia (uncertain mint) (Ptolemy Ceraunus) (Zeus/eagle) (CNG, EA 406, Sept. 2017, 106)

"[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1SNG Copenhagen Macedonia I, n° 133, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2Gaebler 1935, p. 47, n° 3, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3HGC 3.1, n° 456

Overstruck type

Description

Obverse:

Laureate head of Zeus right.

Reverse:

Eagle standing right on a thunderbolt, and it the monogram to the left of the eagle is likely a ligate NK

Mint and issuing power

Mint ^ᵖ:

Macedonia (uncertain mint)

Ancient region ^ᵖ

Macedon

Modern country: Greece

Authority ^ᵖ:

Ptolemy Ceraunus (member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, king of Macedon, 281-279 BC)

Chronology

From 281 BCE to 279 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

period

Physical description

References

Coin type reference ^ᵖ:

"[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]BMC Macedonia, n° 60 [Paroreia]).

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikes:	rare and spread	Level of confidence:	strong
Remarks:	"Overstruck on an issue of Ptolemy Keraunos (previously attributed to “Paroreia”). ... On the reverse, one can distinguish the reverse of the undertype, an eagle standing right on a thunderbolt, and it the monogram to the left of the eagle is likely a ligate NK"

References

^ Breitenstein, Niels (1943), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum, 8. Macedonia. Part. 1 Acanthus - Uranopolis - Dynasts, 11 pl.
^ Gaebler, Hugo (1935), Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands, unter Leitung von Theodor Wiegand. Band III, Makedonia und Paionia. 2. Abt., Verlag W. de Gruyter, Berlin
^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2016), Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. 3. Part I: Macedon, Illyria, and Epeiros, sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 437 p.