90 BCE - 70 BCE | HPAKΛEOYΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΘΑΣIΩΝ
Overstriking coin
SO 416 - Thasos over uncertain mint.jpg
Overstruck variety
87 - Abydus (tetradrachm) over Aesillas (Vienna, KM, 16654) overstruck variety.jpg
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Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ:
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Lanz, 114, 26 May 2003, 82
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of youthful Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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HPAKΛEOYΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΘΑΣIΩΝ (Greek) Herakles standing left, holding club and lion skin. In field, monogram.
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Thasos
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Thrace
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Modern countryModern country: Greece
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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. 90 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: 16.7916.79 g <br />16,790 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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MacDonald 2012, p. 327, no. 1 (02-R8), Callataÿ 2021a, p. 281, n° 4
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Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:
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SNG Copenhagen Thrace 21SNG Copenhagen Thrace 2, no. 1044, Prokopov 20062Prokopov 2006, Class AA-HH and HB, HGC 63HGC 6, n° 359, Callataÿ 2021a4Callataÿ 2021a, p. 281, n° 4
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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MAKEΔONΩΝ (Greek) Head of Alexander the Great right.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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AESILLAS (Latin) Fiscus, club and subsellium. All within oak wreath.
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Mint and issuing power
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 95 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 65 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
- ^ Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Copenhagen. Thrace 2: Odessus - Sestos. Islands. Kings and Dynasts, Copenhagen, 1943.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ Callataÿ, François de (2021), “On pattern and purpose of overstrikes of late Hellenistic tetradrachms in Thrace Macedonia”, in Ulrike Peter and Bernhard Weisser (eds.), Thrace. Local coinage and regional identity, Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 77, Berlin, Topoi, p. 263-289.
- ^ Bauslaugh, Robert A. (2000), Silver coinage with the types of Aesillas the Quaestor, Numismatic Studies 22, New York.
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