21072 - Messana (tetradrachm biga/hare) over Leontini (biga/Apollo) (Stack's Bowers Galleries, Aug. 2017, 20004)

From SILVER
SILVER IDUnique ID of the page : 21072


480 BCE - 426 BCE | MEΣΣENION

Images
Overstriking coin
Messana_over_Leontini_Stacks.jpg [1]
Overstruck variety
Leontini (under Messana).jpg [2]
Location/history
Sale(s)Sale(s) : Stack's Bowers Galleries (& Ponterio), 2 Aug. 2017, 20004

Overstriking coin

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Muleteer seated, driving a biga left (two-mule chariot) ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: MEΣΣENION (Greek) Hare running left
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: Messana 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:
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 480 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 426 BCE Classical 480-323 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: Caccamo Caltabiano 19931Caccamo Caltabiano 1993, series IIA-V, VI-VIII, X-XIII, HGC 22HGC 2, n° 779-786
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:

Overstruck type

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Slow quadriga driven r. by charioteer holding kentron and reins, above Nike flying l. to crown him. In exergue, lion springing r. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: ΛΕΟΝΤΙ - ΝΟ- Ν (Greek) Laureate head of Apollo r., hair plaited behind the neck. Around, three laurel leaves, below neck truncation, lion springing r.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. : Leontini Ancient regionAncient region.  Sicily Modern countryModern country: Italy 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. 475 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 465 BCE Classical 480-323 BC Nomisma.org 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 : HGC 22HGC 2, 665
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: rare and concentrated Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: weak
RemarksRemarks: "Overstruck on a Leontini AR Tetradrachm (SNG ANS-217-218)."

References

  1. ^  Caccamo Caltabiano, Maria (1993), La monetazione di Messana. Con le emissioni di Rhegion dell’eta della tirannide, AMUGS XIII, Berlin-New York, xviii, 383 p., 94 pl.
  2. 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.