15543 - Tyre (Alexander the Great) over Alexander the Great (Nicolet-Pierre, 1986)

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SILVER IDUnique ID of the page : 15543


309 BCE - 308 BCE | ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ

Images
Overstriking coin
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Overstruck variety
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Location/history
Private collection(s)Private collection(s) : Former coll. Masud Kawabiki see Nicolet-Pierre, Hélène (1986)

Overstriking coin

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Head of unbearded Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin. Border of dots. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ (Greek) Zeus seated left on throne, right leg drawn back, his feet resting on a low footrest, holding long pearled scepter in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing right with closed wings.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: Tyre Ancient regionAncient region. Phoenicia Modern countryModern country: Lebanon 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: Alexander III the Great (Argead king, 336-323 BC)
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 309 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 308 BCE Hellenistic 323-30 BC Nomisma.org periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver Nomisma.org DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm Nomisma.org
StandardStandard.: Attic
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: Price 19911Price 1991, n° 3299, Newell 19162Newell 1916, obv. XLI, see pl. X, nrs. 1 and 4.

Overstruck type

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Head of unbearded Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ (Greek) Zeus seated left on throne, right leg drawn back, his feet resting on a low footrest, holding long pearled scepter in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing right with closed wings.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. : Ancient regionAncient region.  Modern countryModern country: AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. : Alexander III the Great (Argead king, 336-323 BC)
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 332 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 308 BCE periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. : tetradrachm Nomisma.org StandardStandard. : Attic
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study :
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: rare and concentrated Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: strong
RemarksRemarks: “un deuxième profil apparaît au droit, au- dessus du front d’Héraklès; au revers, le bras droit de Zeus tenant l’aigle est absent; à son emplacement, on voit un monogramme et les deux jambes drapées d’un autre personnage assis. Il s’agit évidemment d’une monnaie surfrappée mal réussie; la deuxième frappe a laissé subsister des portions du premier type, suffisamment claires pour que nous puissions identi- fier la monnaie qui a servi de flan. C’est déjà un tétradrachme aux types d’Alexandre: outre les jambes et l’avant-bras droit du Zeus assis, on dis- cerne au revers la partie inférieure de son siège, un ‘trône’ avec un haut dossier dont un montant apparaît juste à gauche du torse du nouveau Zeus; au-dessous les lettres ΛΑ. Au droit, on reconnaît bien le visage d’Héraklès, dont le nez et l’arcade sourcilière sont coupés en oblique par un pli de la deuxième léonté, ainsi que la mâchoire inférieure et le retour sous le menton d’une des pattes de la dépouille. Les marques de cet ancien tétradrachme, le style du trône et la représentation des jambes parallèles nous orientent vers les séries attribuées à l’atelier de Suse”

References

  1. ^  Price, Martin Jessop (1991), The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus: a British Museum Catalogue, 2 vol., Zürich-London, 637 p., 637 p., clix pl.
  2. ^  Newell, Edward T. (1916), The dated Alexander coinage of Sidon and Ake, Yale University Press, New Haven, 72 p.