SO 1479 - Cos over uncertain mint
From SILVER
446 BCE - 444 BCEΚΩΙΟΝ
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Location/history
| Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Freman & Sear FPL 4, summer 1996, n°39 | |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | ΚΩΙΟΝ (Greek) Discobolus about to hurl disc. In left field, tripod. Border of dot | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Crab within incuse square with dotted borders. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Cos | Ancient regionAncient region. | Caria | 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: |
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 446 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 444 BCE | 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.: | WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 16.4316.43 g <br />16,430 mg <br /> | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: triple siglos
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| StandardStandard.: Persic | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | Barron 19681Barron 1968, Group B, n°13-18, HGC 62HGC 6, n°1299 | |
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Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Modern countryModern country: | 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. toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. | periodTime period of the numismatic object. |
Physical description
References
| Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: |
Additional data
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | ||
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References
- ^ Barron, John Penrose (1968), "The Fifth-Century Diskoboloi of Kos", in Colin M. Kraay and Gilbert Kenneth Jenkins (éd.), Essays in Greek Coinage Presented to Stanley Robinson, Oxford, p. 75-89, pl. 8-10.
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2010), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, volume 6 : handbook of coins of the islands: Adriatic, Iionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus), sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 358 p.
