100 BCE - 70 BCE | TENEΔΙΩΝ
Overstriking coin
Tenedos 105 Egger.jpg
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Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ:
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Egger (Vienna), XLVI, 11 May 1914, n° 699 = Hess-Leu (Lucerne), 31, 6-7 Dec. 1966, n° 417 = Nomos, 5, 25 Oct. 2011, 181 = Nomos, 24, 22 May 2022, 185
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| Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ᵖ:
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Th. Prowe collection
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Janiform head of a Zeus left, wearing laurel wreath and Hera right wearing stephane.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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TENEΔΙΩΝ (Greek) Double axe. In field, monogram, grape bunch and Artemis with a stag. All within laurel wreath.
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Tenedos
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Troas
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Modern countryModern country: Turkey
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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:
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 100 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 70 BCE
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Hellenistic 323-30 BC  periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 16.5316.53 g <br />16,530 mg <br />
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DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm
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AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 1212 mm <br />1.2 cm <br />
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| DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 3737 mm <br />3.7 cm <br />
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StandardStandard.: Attic
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References
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ:
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Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ
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Modern countryModern country:
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AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ᵖ:
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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..
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periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ:
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tetradrachm
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StandardStandard. ᵖ:
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Attic
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References
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:
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rare and spread
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Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
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| RemarksRemarks:
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"Flan flaw on the reverse, otherwise, nearly extremely fine" (several letters on two lines on the reverse = Athens?)
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References
- ^ Callataÿ, François de (1993), “Un tétradrachme hellénistique de Ténédos surfrappé sur Thasos”, Schweizer Münzblätter, 43 (169), p. 2-4.
- ^ Callataÿ, François de (1998), "Les monnaies hellénistiques en argent de Ténédos", in Georges Le Rider and Roger Bland (eds.), Studies in Greek Numismatics in memory of Martin Jessop Price, London, p. 99-114, pl. 24-28.
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2010), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, volume 6 : handbook of coins of the islands: Adriatic, Iionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus), sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 358 p.
