2969 - Teos (stater griffin/incuse square) over Aegina (turtle/incuse square) (MacDonald coll., 125)
From SILVER
478 BCE - 420 BCETHION
Images
Overstriking coin
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Overstruck variety
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Location/history
| Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ᵖ: | MacDonald coll. 125 | Archaeological contextArchaeological context: | CH VIII, 47 (Ionia, 1983) |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | THION (Greek) Griffin seated right, a forepaw raised. To lower right, grape bunch with leaf. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Quadripartite incuse square |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Teos | 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. 478 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 420 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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DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: stater
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| StandardStandard.: Aeginetic | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Balcer 1968, Period II, Group LIV, n°102, MacDonald 1995, p. 321, n° 2 | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | Balcer 19681Balcer 1968, MacDonald 19952MacDonald 1995, p. 321, n° 1, MacDonald 20093MacDonald 2009, n° 125 |
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Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Turtle | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Windmill sail pattern incuse (visible on reverse) |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Aegina | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Aegina | Modern countryModern country: Greece | 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. 525 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 480 BCE | periodTime period of the numismatic object. |
Physical description
| DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ: | stater
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References
| Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | HGC 64HGC 6, n° 429, Meadows (forthcoming)5Meadows (forthcoming), Groups IIa-IIb | ||
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Additional data
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | rare and spread | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | sure |
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References
- ^ Balcer, Jack M. (1968), "The early silver coinage of Teos", Revue Suisse de Numismatique 47, p. 5-50.
- ^ McDonald, David (1995), "A note on CH VIII No. 47: Ionia 1983", Numismatic Chronicle 155, p. 321-323, pl. 50, n° 3.
- ^ Macdonald, David (2009), Overstruck Greek coins: studies in Greek chronology and monetary theory, Whitman Publishing, Atlanta.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Meadows, Andrew (forthcoming), Greek coinage in the Persian Empire: The Malayer 1934 Hoard (IGCH 1790).
