420 BCE - 410 BCE | EΣTFEΔIIVΣ
Overstriking coin
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Overstruck variety
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Two naked athletes wrestling. Border of dots.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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EΣTFEΔIIVΣ (GREEK) Slinger advancing right. In right field, triskeles. All within an dotted incuse square.
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Aspendus
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Pamphylia
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Modern countryModern country: Turkey
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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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Persian Empire
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 420 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 410 BCE
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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.: double siglos
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StandardStandard.: Persian
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References
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Herakles seated right (visible on obverse)
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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Goat lying right.
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Mint and issuing power
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 411 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 373 BCE
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Classical 480-323 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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stater
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References
References
- ^ Breitenstein, Niels (1955), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collections of coins and medals. Danish National Museum, 31, Lycia-Pamphylia.
- ^ Tekin, Oguz (2000), "Aspendian 'Wrestlers' : an iconographic approach", in: Casabonne, Olivier (ed), Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans l'Anatolie achemenide : numismatique et histoire : actes de la table ronde internationale d'Istanbul, 22-23 mai 1997, Paris, Institut français d'etudes antoliennes d'Istanbul, p.159-169, pl. 27-28
- ^ Hill, George Francis (1904), A Catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum, vol XX : Cyprus, London, cxliv, 119 p., xxvi pl.,
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