100 BCE - 75 BCE | ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ
Overstriking coin
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Overstruck variety
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Janus, wearing laurel wreath. Above, I (value mark).
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ (Greek) Two centaurs rearing, facing away from one another, holding branches.
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Thessalonica
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Macedon
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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, Roman province of Macedonia
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 100 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 75 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.: Bronze
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 6.936.93 g <br />6,930 mg <br />
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DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: as
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AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 1212 mm <br />1.2 cm <br />
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| DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 2121 mm <br />2.1 cm <br />
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StandardStandard.: Semuncial
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References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin:
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MacDonald 2000, p. 119, n° 2, MacDonald 2009, p. 83, n° 62
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Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:
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Gaebler 19351Gaebler 1935, p. 120-121, n° 19, MacDonald 20002MacDonald 2000, p. 119, n° 2, MacDonald 20093MacDonald 2009, p. 83, n° 62, HGC 3.14HGC 3.1, n° 741, Kourempanas 20165Kourempanas 2016, n° 17
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| Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Poseidon right, wearing diadem or wreath (visible: profile of Poseidon from top of head to beard, details of eye).
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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(ΑΜΦΙΠΟ)ΛΙΤΩΝ (Greek) Club and monograms within wreath (visible: traces of wreath and club).
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Mint and issuing power
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 148 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 88 BCE
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Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
References
References
- a b Gaebler, Hugo (1935), Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands, unter Leitung von Theodor Wiegand. Band III, Makedonia und Paionia. 2. Abt., Verlag W. de Gruyter, Berlin
- ^ MacDonald, David (2000), "Macedonian civic bronze overstrikes and circulation areas," Nomismatika chronika 19, p. 115-121
- ^ Macdonald, David (2009), Overstruck Greek coins: studies in Greek chronology and monetary theory, Whitman Publishing, Atlanta.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Kourempanas, Theodoros (2016), "Τα ελληνιστικά νομίσματα της Θεσσαλονίκης" , Athens, p. 112, pl. 13.
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