100 BCE - 70 BCE | TENEΔΙΩΝ
Overstriking coin
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Overstruck variety
Thasos tetradrachm.jpg
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Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ:
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Münzhandlung, 10, 15-16 March 1938, n° 309 = Glendining, 18-20 Apr. 1955, n° 477 = Kricheldorf, 28-29 May 1956, n° 1075 = Cederlind, 97, Winter 1993, n° 105
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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 eagle. 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: 16.4216.42 g <br />16,420 mg <br />
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DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm
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StandardStandard.: Attic
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References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin:
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Callataÿ 1993b, p. 2-4, n° 11, Callataÿ 1998, p. 102, pl. 24 (11/D7-R1a)
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Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:
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Callataÿ 1993b1Callataÿ 1993b, p. 2-4, n° 11, Callataÿ 19982Callataÿ 1998, p. 102, pl. 24 (11/D7-R1a), HGC 63HGC 6, n° 390
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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HPAKΛEOYΣ / ΣΩTHPOΣ / ΘAΣIΩN (Greek) Herakles standing left, holding club and lion skin
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Mint and issuing power
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 168 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
| 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
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.
- a b 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.
- ^ Prokopov, Ilya (2006), Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jahrhundert v. Chr., Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin, 342 p., 118 p. of plates
