Tyre

Mints

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 234

The mint at the ancient site of Tyre in Phoenicia.

Die Studies

Item	Image	MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.	WeightCarter 1983 * Median weight * 20000 (*10 if gold or electrum)
Tyre, silver, shekels (450-425 BCE)		Silver	8,851 kg
Tyre, silver, quarter shekels (450-425 BCE)		Silver	4,043 kg
Tyre, silver, sixteenth shekels (450-425 BCE)		Silver	360 kg
Tyre, silver, shekels (425-394 BCE)		Silver	27,186 kg
Tyre, silver, quarter shekels (425-394 BCE)		Silver	714 kg
Tyre, silver, sixteenth shekels (425-394 BCE)		Silver	1,061 kg
Tyre, silver, shekels (393-358 BCE)		Silver	18,221 kg
Tyre, silver, sixteenth shekels (393-358 BCE)		Silver	1,580 kg
Tyre, silver, shekels (357-333 BCE)		Silver	23,277 kg
Tyre (Ptolemy II), gold, trichrysa (275-274 BCE)		Gold	74,863 kg
Tyre (Ptolemy IV), silver, tetradrachms ΣΩ (portrait of Ptolemy IV) (217-215 BCE)		Silver	282 kg
Tyre (Ptolemy IV), silver, tetradrachms ΣΩ (portrait of Ptolemy I) (217-215 BCE)		Silver	558 kg
Tyre (Ptolemy V), silver, tetradrachms (202-200 BCE) Olivier		Silver	1,038 kg
Tyre (Seleucid kings), silver, tetradrachms (152-125 BCE)		Silver	75,109 kg
Tyre, silver, tetradrachms (108/7-60/59 BCE)		Silver	58,673 kg
Tyr, gold, octodrachms (Tyche/cornucopiae) (104-101 BCE)		Gold	9,169 kg

Overstriking coins

Item	Overstriking coinImage of the overstriking coin	MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.	DateIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.	Overstruck typeImage of the overstruck variety
2861 - Tyre (1/4 shekel Melkart/bow) over uncertain type (CNG, MBS 79, Sept. 2008, 434)		Silver	425 BC JL
3362 - Tyre (shekel Melkart/bow) over uncertain type (Gemini, 6, Jan. 2010, 257)		Silver	425 BC JL
788 - Tyre (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus - 319/318 BCE) over Alexander the Great (CNG, 108, May 2018, 389)		Silver	319 BC JL
15521 - Tyre (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus - 316/315 BCE) over Alexander the Great (CNG, 72, June 2006, lot 399)		Silver	316 BC JL
28733 - Tyre (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus - 315/314 BCE) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (CNG, EA 481, Dec. 2020, 180)		Silver	315 BC JL
28726 - Tyre (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus - 316/315 BCE) over uncertain type (Leu Numismatik, EA 12, May 2020, 154)		Silver	315 BC JL
28742 - Tyre (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus - 314/313 BCE) over uncertain type (Heritage, 231731, Aug. 2017, 61006)		Silver	314 BC JL
15526 - Tyre (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus - 314/313 BCE) over uncertain type (Savoca, 26, Oct. 2018, lot 34)		Silver	314 BC JL
28745 - Tyre (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus - 313/312 BCE) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (Triton, XXV, Jan. 2022, 5057)		Silver	313 BC JL
789 - Tyre (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus - 312/311 BCE) over uncertain type (Elsen, 93, Sept. 2007, 206)		Silver	312 BC JL
15534 - Tyre (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus - 312/311 BCE) over Alexander the Great (CNG, 61, Sept. 2002, lot 456)		Silver	312 BC JL
27375 - Tyre (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus - 312/311 BCE) over uncertain type (Triton, XXV, Jan. 2022, 5058)		Silver	312 BC JL
15537 - Tyre (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus - 311/310 BCE) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (Meydancikkale hoard, n° 2170)		Silver	311 BC JL
3639 - Tyre (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus - 311/310 BCE) over uncertain type (CNG, MBS 61, Sept. 2002 466)		Silver	311 BC JL
15543 - Tyre (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus - 309/308 BCE) over Alexander the Great (Nicolet-Pierre 1986 - Kawabiki coll.)		Silver	309 BC JL
15545 - Tyre (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus - 307/306 BCE) over uncertain type (CNG, 79, Sept. 2008, lot 171)		Silver	307 BC JL
28483 - Antioch (Antiochus VII) (tetradrachm Antiochus VII/eagle) over uncertain Seleucid type (CNG, EA 317, Dec. 2013, 96)		Silver	133 BC JL
3765 - Tyre (shekel Melkart/eagle) over uncertain type (CNG, EA 220, Oct. 2009, 191)		Silver	87 BC JL
28226 - Tyre (shekel Melkart/eagle) over uncertain type (Solidus Numismatik, 138, Dec. 2024, 1285)		Silver	AD 35 JL

Overstruck coins

Item	Overstruck typeImage of the overstruck variety	MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.	DateIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.	Overstriking coinImage of the overstriking coin
24833 - Etenna (AE nymph/knife) over Ptolemy II (Zeus/eagle) (Side Museum, Inv. 3346)		Bronze	100 BC JL
2498 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Tyre (Tyche/Astarte on a galley) (Nercessian 1996, 81)		Bronze	80 BC JL
2591 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/cornucopia) over Tyre (Tyche/Astarte on galley) (Nercessian coll. - Nercessian 1996, 107)		Bronze	80 BC JL
2557 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Heracles) over Tyre (Melqart/palm tree) (Saryan coll. - Nercessian 1996, 103)		Bronze	79 BC JL

Description

Nomisma IDNomisma ID	tyre
Definition:	The mint at the ancient site of Tyre in Phoenicia.
Pleiades IDUnique ID of the Pleiades place resource	678437
Ancient regionAncient region.	Syria (Phoenicia) Nomisma: phoenicia, Nomisma: greek_syria
Modern countryModern country	Lebanon
CoordinatesGeographical coorindates	33.273713° N, 35.194938° E
Links	http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tyre,_Lebanon https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678437 http://sws.geonames.org/267008/ http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/place/x31064 http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7002862

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Literature

• BMC Phoenicia
• Callataÿ 2002
• Callataÿ 2017/2018
• Callataÿ 2021b
• Carlen 2022
• Elayi - Elayi 2009
• Elayi 1992
• Iossif 2011
• Lichtenberger 2023
• Newell 1916

Authors

• François de Callataÿ
• Eric Carlen
• Alain Elayi
• Josette Elayi
• Panagiotis Iossif
• Achim Lichtenberger