2142 - Samos (stater lion/ox) over Cyrene (Zeus Ammon/silphium) (London, BM, BNK, G.607)
From SILVER
499 BCE - 495 BCE
Images
Overstriking coin
Samos_over_Cyrene_Barron_7.png
Overstruck variety
Cyrene_BMC_pl_XI_n5.jpg [BMC 29, pl.XI, n°5]
Location/history
| Museum collectionMuseum collection: | London, British Museum, BNK,G.607 | |
| Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ᵖ: | Bank of England |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Lion scalp facing. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Head of ox right within doted incuse square. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Samos | Ancient regionAncient region. | Ionia | Modern countryModern country: Turkey | 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. 499 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 495 BCE | Classical 480-323 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: 13.0413.04 g <br />13,040 mg <br /> | 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.: 33 mm <br />0.3 cm <br /> |
| StandardStandard.: Samian | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Barron 1966, class I, p. 27, pl. VI, n° 7, BMC Ionia, p.351, n° 20 | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | Barron 19661Barron 1966, class I, HGC 62HGC 6, n° 1184 |
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Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Zeus Ammon to right, wearing laureate diadem | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Siliphium |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Cyrene? | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Cyrenaica | Modern countryModern country: | AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ᵖ: |
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
| DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ: | tetradrachm
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References
| Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | BMC Cyrenaica3BMC Cyrenaica, pl. III 4-5 |
Additional data
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | ||
| RemarksRemarks: | |||
References
- ^ Barron, John Penrose (1966), The Silver Coins of Samos, London, xii, 244 p., 32 pl.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Robinson, E. S. G. (1927), A Catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum, vol. XXIX : Cyrenaica, London, The Trustees, p. 154, pl. 47.
