3384 - Thessalonica (Aesillas) (tetradrachm Alexander/club) over Athens 125/124 BCE (Athena/owl) (Berlin, Münzkabinett, 214/1907)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3384

95 BCE - 70 BCEMAKEΔΟΝΩΝ | AESILLAS Q

Images

Overstriking coin

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Overstruck variety

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Location/history

Museum collectionMuseum collection:	Berlin, Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen, 214/1907.

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 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: 16.116.1 g <br />16,100 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 3030 mm <br />3 cm <br />		StandardStandard.: Attic

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:	Thompson 1973, p. 56, pl. A, 1.	Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	Regling 19081Regling 1908, p. 241, Thompson 19732Thompson 1973, p. 56, pl. A, 1, Bauslaugh 19873Bauslaugh 1987, pl. 3, no. 9, Bauslaugh 20004Bauslaugh 2000, Groups I-III, V-VI and VIII (dies O94-R353), HGC 3.15HGC 3.1, n° 1110, Callataÿ 2021a6Callataÿ 2021a, p. 285, n° 13
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.:

A - ΘE / KAΛ / ΛIKPA - EΠI / ΓENH / ΣΩΣAN / ΔPOΣ (Greek) 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. 125 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 124 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 19617Thompson 1961, n° 442, HGC 48HGC 4, n° 1602

Additional data

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

References

^ Regling, Kurt (1908), "Drei Miszellen. I. Aesillas, auf Athen überprägt. II. Kupfernes tetradrachmon. III. Die Tetradrachmen der Kleopatra VII.", Journal International d'Archéologie et de Numismatique 11, p. 241-248 (241-242 for Aesillas).
^ Thompson, Margaret (1973), "Byzantium over Aesillas", Revue Numismatique 6 (15), p. 54-65.
^ Bauslaugh, Robert A. (1987), "Two unpublished overstrikes: new style Athens and Aesillas the Quaestor," American Numismatic Society. Museum notes 32, p. 11-21
^ 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.
^ Callataÿ, François de (2021), “On pattern and purpose of overstrikes of late Hellenistic tetradrachms in Thrace Macedonia”, in Ulrike Peter and Bernhard Weisser (eds.), Thrace. Local coinage and regional identity, Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 77, Berlin, Topoi, p. 263-289.
^ Thompson, Margaret (1961), The new style silver coinage of Athens, Numismatic Studies 10, New York, 2 vol.
^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2014), Handbook of Greek Coinage Series 4. Northern and Central Greece : Achaia Phthiotis, Ainis, Magnesia, Malis, Oita, Perrhaibia, Thessaly, Akarnania, Aitolia, Lokris, Phokis, Boiotia, Euboia, Attica, Megaris and Corinthia, sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, lxxi, 563 p.