17513 - Taras (AR nomos rider/Taras) over uncertain type (Stack's Bowers Galleries, Jan. 2022, 4033)

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SILVER IDUnique ID of the page : 17513


280 BCE - 272 BCE

Images
Overstriking coin
2433 - Taras (AR nomos) over uncertain type.jpg
Location/history
Sale(s)Sale(s) : Stack's Bowers Galleries (& Ponterio), NYINC Auction, 14 Jan. 2022, lot 4033
Private collection(s)Private collection(s) : Mark and Lottie Salton Collection

Overstriking coin

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: The Dioskouroi on horses rearing left, monogram above, [ΣΩ]ΔAMOΣ below ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: Phalanthos, holding crowning Nike, two spears, and shield decorated with hippocamp, riding dolphin left, ΓY to left, waves below
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: Taras Ancient regionAncient region. Magna Graecia (Calabria) Modern countryModern country: Italy 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. 280 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 272 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 WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 6.556.55 g <br />6,550 mg <br /> DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: nomos
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: Ravel 19471Ravel 1947, n° 773-9, HN Italy2HN Italy, n°1011, HGC 13HGC 1, n° 885
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:

Overstruck type

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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. :
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 :
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: rare and spread Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:

References

  1. ^  Ravel, Oscar E. (1990), Descriptive catalogue of the collection of Tarentine coins formed by M. P. Vlasto, London, Spink
  2. ^  Rutter N. Keith et alii (eds.) (2001), Historia Numorum Italy, London, xvi, 223 p., 43 pl.
  3. ^  Hoover, Oliver D. (2018), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 1. Handbook of Coins of Italy and Magna Graecia, Sixth to First Centuries BC., Lancaster-London, 2018, lxi, 527 pages, 23 cm