SO 1486 - Rhodes over uncertain mint
From SILVER
84 BCE - 30 BCE | ΡΟ
Location/history
| Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Gorny & Mosch 257, 15 Oct. 2018, n° 478 | |
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 top view. Around, ΑΠΠΟΛΩΝΙΔΑΣ (magistrate name) and petasos. 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. 84 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 30 BCE | 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.: | WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 3.713.71 g <br />3,710 mg <br /> | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: drachma
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| StandardStandard.: Attic (reduced) | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | SNG Keckman, n° 746 | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | Ashton - Weiss 19971Ashton - Weiss 1997, n° 1-351, SNG Keckman2SNG Keckman, n° 746, HGC 63HGC 6, n° 1456. |
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Overstruck type
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.: | PO (Greek) Rose top view. Around, ΑΠΠΟΛΩΝΙΔΑΣ (magistrate name) and petasos. Border of dots. (visible 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. 50 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 30 BCE | Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
References
| Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | Ashton - Weiss 19971Ashton - Weiss 1997, n° 1-351, SNG Keckman2SNG Keckman, n° 746, HGC 63HGC 6, n° 1456. | ||
| Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck: | |||
Additional data
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | ||
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References
- a b Ashton, Richard - Weiss, Arnold-Peter (1997), "The Post-Plinthophoric Silver Drachms of Rhodes", Numismatic Chronicle, 157, p. 1-39, pl. 1-16.
- a b Ashton, Richard and Westermark, Ulla (1994), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Finland, The Erkki Keckman Collection in the Skopbank, Helsinki, Part 1: Karia,
- a b 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.
