20130 - Syracuse (AE Zeus/eagle) over Syracuse (Heracles/lion) (Classical Numismatic Group, EA 443, May 2019, 10)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 20130

287 BCE - 278 BCEΔΙΟΣ ΕΛΛΑΝΙΟΥ | ΣYPAKOΣIΩN

Images

Overstriking coin

Syracuse_2604_CNG.jpg [1]

Overstruck variety

Syracuse Heracles-lion HGC 2 1464.jpeg [2]

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Classical Numismatic Group, EA 443, 1 May 2019, 10

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

ΔΙΟΣ ΕΛΛΑΝΙΟΥ (Greek) Head of Zeus Hellanios left, wearing laurel wreath.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΣYPAKOΣIΩN (Greek) Eagle left, wings opened.

Mint and issuing power

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

Syracuse

Ancient regionAncient region.

Sicily

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:

Hicetas (tyrant of Syracuse, 288-279 BC)

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 287 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 278 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

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:		Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	Calciati 19861Calciati 1986, p. 301-302, n° 154-156, HGC 22HGC 2, n° 1448, Puglisi 20093Puglisi 2009, p. 328, n° 326
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/syracuse.puglisi 2009.326

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ (Greek) Head of young Herakles right, wearing diadem.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Lion leaping right. Above, club. Border of dots.

Mint and issuing power

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

Syracuse

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Sicily

Modern countryModern country: Italy

AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ^ᵖ:

Agathocles of Syracuse (tyrant of Syracuse in 317-289 BC and self-styled king of Sicily in 304-289 BC)

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 289 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 287 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:	Calciati 19861Calciati 1986, n° 151, HGC 22HGC 2, n° 1465, Puglisi 20093Puglisi 2009, p. 326, n° 319
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/syracuse.puglisi 2009.319

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	frequent	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:	sure
RemarksRemarks:	"One overstruck on an issue of Agathokles (head of Herakles / lion [CNS 151])"

References

a b Calciati, Romolo (1986), Corpus nummorum siculorum. La monetazione di bronzo/The bronze coinage, vol. 2, Milan, Edizioni G. M.
a b Hoover, Oliver D. (2012), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series. 2. Handbook of the Coins of Sicily (Including Lipara). Civic, Royal, Siculo-Punic, and Romano-Sicilian Issues. Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster-London, 489 p.
a b Puglisi, Mariangela (2009), La Sicilia da Dionisio I a Sesto Pompeo : circolazione e funzione della moneta, Messina, DiScAM, p. 519.