90 BCE - 70 BCE | HΡAKΛEOΥΣ - ΣΩTHΡOΣ / ΘAΣIΩN
Overstriking coin
SO 394 - Thasos over uncertain mint.jpg
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Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ:
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Hirsch, 32, 22-24 Oct. 1962, 2334 = Hirsch, 309, 7 May 2005, 91 = Künker, 326, 7 Oct. 2019, 748 = Künker, EA 65, 23 Feb. 2021, 7028
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of youthful Dionysos to right, wearing tainia and wreath of ivy and fruit.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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HΡAKΛEOΥΣ - ΣΩTHΡOΣ / ΘAΣIΩN (Greek) Herakles standing front, head to left, holding club in his right hand and lion skin draped over his left arm and shoulder
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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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Roman Republic
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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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Callataÿ 1998, p. 114, note 45, Callataÿ 2021a, p. 282, n° 14
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Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:
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Prokopov 20061Prokopov 2006, Groupe XIII, obv. BB7, HGC 62HGC 6, n° 359, Callataÿ 2021a3Callataÿ 2021a, p. 282, n° 14
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet ornamented with three laurel leaves and vine scroll
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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A-ӨE (Greek) Owl standing facing on amphora to right, symbol to right, letter on amphora, all within olive wreath
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ:
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Athens
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Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ
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Attica
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Modern countryModern country: Greece
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AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ᵖ:
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 150 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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References
References
- ^ 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.
