23296 - Argos Amphilochicum (stater Pegasus/Athena) over uncertain type (Stack's Bowers Galleries, Sept. 2023, 73014)
From SILVER
330 BCE - 280 BCE
Images
Overstriking coin
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Location/history
| Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Stack's Bowers Galleries (& Ponterio), Sept. 2023 World CCO Auction, 12 Sept. 2023, 73014 | |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Pegasos flying left. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Head of Athena left, wearing Corinthian helmet, to right, crested Corinthian helmet left |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Argos Amphilochicum | Ancient regionAncient region. | Acarnania | Modern countryModern country: Greece | 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. 330 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 280 BCE | 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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DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: stater
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| StandardStandard.: Corinthian | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | Calciati 19901Calciati 1990, n° 11, HGC 42HGC 4, n° 783 | |
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Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | 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
References
| Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: |
Additional data
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | rare and spread | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | |
| RemarksRemarks: | "This interesting Stater displays an angular hollow on the obverse resulting from the noted overstrike" | ||
References
- ^ Calciati, Romolo (1990), Pegasi, Mortara, Edizioni I.P..
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2014), Handbook of Greek Coinage Series 4. Northern and Central Greece : Achaia Phthiotis, Ainis, Magnesia, Malis, Oita, Perrhaibia, Thessaly, Akarnania, Aitolia, Lokris, Phokis, Boiotia, Euboia, Attica, Megaris and Corinthia, sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, lxxi, 563 p.
