SO 1010 - Canusium over Oiniadae

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 1733

209 BCE - 208 BCE | ROMA

Images

Overstruck variety

Location/history

Museum collectionMuseum collection:	Turin

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Minerva right, wearing necklace, earing and crested Corinthian helmet. Above, 4 pellets. Border of dots.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ROMA (Latin) Prow of galley right. In right field, CA. Below, 4 pellets (mark of value). Linear border.

Mint and issuing power

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

Canusium

Ancient regionAncient region.

Magna Graecia (Apulia)

Modern countryModern country: Italy

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:

Roman Republic

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 209 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 208 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 6.016.01 g <br />6,010 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: triens
		StandardStandard.: uncial

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:	Hersh 1953, n°14m (no illustration)	Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	Sydenham 19521Sydenham 1952, n°309c., RRC2RRC, n°100/3.
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-100.3

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Zeus right.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

OINIAΔAN (Greek) Head of river-god Acheloüs right.

Mint and issuing power

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

Oiniadae

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Acarnania

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. 219 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 211 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:	BMC Thessaly3BMC Thessaly, Oeniadae, n°6-14, BCD Akarnanien und Aetolien4BCD Akarnanien und Aetolien, n°351.1-11, HGC 45HGC 4, n°899
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/oeniadae.bmc.6-14

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	frequent	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:	sure
RemarksRemarks:	"overstruck on Oeniadae (Zeus r./river god Achelous r.)"

References

^ Sydenham, Edward Allen (1952), The Coinage of the Roman Republic, London, Spink & Son Ltd., lxix, 343 p., 30 pl.
^ Crawford, Michael H. (1974), Roman Republican Coinage, Cambridge
^ Gardner, Percy (1883), A Catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. vol. V : Thessaly to Aetolia, London, The Trustees, p. 234, pl. 32.
^ Münzen & Medaillen (Deutschland). Sammlung BCD : Akarnanien und Aetolien. Auction 23, 18 October 2007, Stuttgart, 591 lots.
^ 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.