SO 733 - Pella over Thessalonica

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3361

148 BCE - 140 BCE | ΠΕΛΛΗΣ

Images

Overstriking coin

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Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Münz Zentrum 174 (02/09/2015), lot 48.

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΠΕΛΛΗΣ (Greek) Bull standing right. Under his belly, monogram. In right field, monogram?

Mint and issuing power

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

Pella

Ancient regionAncient region.

Macedon

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. 148 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 140 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	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 8.368.36 g <br />8,360 mg <br />
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 2323 mm <br />2.3 cm <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

SNG Copenhagen Macedonia I1SNG Copenhagen Macedonia I, n° 260, Gaebler 19352Gaebler 1935, p. 95, n° 8, HGC 3.13HGC 3.1, 2016, n° 618

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Dionysos right.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ (Greek) Pegasus grazing right.

Mint and issuing power

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

Thessalonica

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Macedon

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. 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:

Gaebler 19352Gaebler 1935, 118, 4 Tf. 22, 22, SNG Copenhagen Macedonia I1SNG Copenhagen Macedonia I, 351, SNG ANS 7 Macedonia 14SNG ANS 7 Macedonia 1, 776.

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:		Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:

References

a b Breitenstein, Niels (1943), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum, 8. Macedonia. Part. 1 Acanthus - Uranopolis - Dynasts, 11 pl.
a b 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.
^ SNG ANS 7 Macedonia 1