3193 - Seleuceia Pieria (tetradrachm Tyche/thunderbolt) over uncertain type (Ira & Larry Goldberg, 84, Jan. 2015, 3060)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3193

104 BCE - 31 BCE | ΣΕΛΕΥΚΕΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΥΤΟΝΟΜΟΥ

Images

Overstriking coin

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Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Ira & Larry Goldberg, 84, 27 Jan. 2015, 3060.

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Bust of Tyche right, turreted and veiled.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΣΕΛΕΥΚΕΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΥΤΟΝΟΜΟΥ (Greek) Filleted thunderbolt on throne. Below, ΓΙ (year 13). To lower right, I. All within laurel wreath.

Mint and issuing power

MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:

Seleuceia Pieria

Ancient regionAncient region.

Syria (Seleucis and Pieria)

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. 104 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 31 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 14.2414.24 g <br />14,240 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:		Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	BMC Galatia1BMC Galatia, p. 271, n° 17-22, HGC 92HGC 9, n° 1382
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/seleuceia pieria.bmc.16-23

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:		Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:	"Overtruck on an uncertain undertype."

References

^ Wroth, Warwick William (1899), A Catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. vol. XXI : Galatia, Cappadocia, and Syria, London, The Trustees, p. 341, pl. XXXVIII.
^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2009), Handbook of ancient Syrian coins : royal and civic issues, fourth to first centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage 9, Lancaster, lxix, 332 p.