85 BCE - 80 BCE | KNΩ-Σ-I-ΩN
Overstriking coin
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Overstruck variety
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| Museum collectionMuseum collection:
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Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Monnaies, médailles et antiques, D 3223
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Helmeted head of Athena left
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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KNΩ-Σ-I-ΩN (Greek) Labyrinth
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Cnossus
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Crete
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Modern countryModern country: Crete
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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. 85 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 80 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: 2.212.21 g <br />2,210 mg <br />
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DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: hemidrachm
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StandardStandard.: Attic
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References
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Radiate head of Helios to right.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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P - O (Greek) Rose with bud to right
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Mint and issuing power
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 88 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 84 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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drachma
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References
References
- ^ Svoronos, Ioannes N. (1890), Numismatique de Crète ancienne, accompagnée de l'histoire, la géographie et la mythologie de l'île. Première partie, description des monnaies, 2 vol., Macon, Impr. Protat frères.
- ^ Carrier, Caroline (2017), Cnossos de l'époque classique à l'époque impériale (Ve s. avant J.-C.-Ier s. après J.-C.). Etude de numismatique et d'histoire, Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Paris-Sorbonne University.
- ^ 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.
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