3495 - Thessalonica (Aesillas) (tetradrachm Alexander/club) over Athens (Athena/owl) (Monnaies d’Antan, 23, May 2018, 497)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3495

95 BCE - 70 BCEMAKEΔΟΝΩΝ | AESILLAS Q

Images

Overstriking coin

SO 889 - Thessalonica over Athens.jpg

Overstruck variety

Athens Mikion Euryklei.jpg

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Monnaies d’Antan (Bruxelles), 23, 19 May 2018, lot 497
Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ^ᵖ:	F. Febrer collection

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

MAKEΔΟΝΩΝ (Greek) Head of Alexander the Great right. Behind head, Θ.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

AESILLAS Q (Latin) Fiscus, club and sella curulis. All within laurel wreath.

Mint and issuing power

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

Thessalonica

Ancient regionAncient region.

Macedon

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:

Aesillas (quaestor in the Roman province of Macedonia in c. 90 BC), Roman Republic

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.. 70 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		DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm
		StandardStandard.: Attic

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:		Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	Bauslaugh 20001Bauslaugh 2000, Groups I-III, V-VI and VIII, HGC 3.12HGC 3.1, n° 1110
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/macedonians aesillas bauslaugh.2000.i-vi

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Athena.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Owl on amphora.

Mint and issuing power

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

Athens

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Attica

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. 166 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 70 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ^ᵖ:

tetradrachm

StandardStandard. ^ᵖ:

Attic

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:

Thompson 19613Thompson 1961

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	rare and concentrated	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:	weak
RemarksRemarks:

References

^ Bauslaugh, Robert A. (2000), Silver coinage with the types of Aesillas the Quaestor, Numismatic Studies 22, New York.
^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2016), Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. 3. Part I: Macedon, Illyria, and Epeiros, sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 437 p.
^ Thompson, Margaret (1961), The new style silver coinage of Athens, Numismatic Studies 10, New York, 2 vol.