SO 1483 - Rhodes over uncertain mint

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 2052

250 BCE - 230 BCE | ΡΟ

Images

Overstriking coin

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Stack's Bowers & Ponterio 172, 16 Nov. 2012), n° 11667

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Helios facing three-quarters right, wearing radiate wreath.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΡΟ (Greek) Rose with bud. In left field, Athena standing left. In top, ΜΑΣΙΜΑΧΟΣ (magistrate name). Border of dots.

Mint and issuing power

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

Rhodes

Ancient regionAncient region.

Caria (Rhodes)

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. 250 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 230 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

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: 6.516.51 g <br />6,510 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: didrachm
		StandardStandard.: Rhodian

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:	SNG Keckman, n° 537	Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	SNG Keckman1SNG Keckman, n° 537, Ashton 20012Ashton 2001, n° 206-9, HGC 63HGC 6, n° 1439
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/rhodes ashton 2001 206-9

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:
RemarksRemarks:	"Overstruck"

References

^ Ashton, Richard and Westermark, Ulla (1994), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Finland, The Erkki Keckman Collection in the Skopbank, Helsinki, Part 1: Karia,
^ Ashton, Richard (2001), "The coinage of Rhodes 408-c.190 BC", in Andrew Meadows and Kirsty Shipton (eds.), Money and its uses in the ancient world, Oxford, Oxford University Press, p. 79-115.
^ 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.