SO 2024 - Seleuceia ad Tigrim over uncertain mint

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 2718

127 BCE - 126 BCE | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΕ ΑPΣΑΚΟΥ

Images

Overstriking coin

Gemini_150.jpg [1]

Overstruck variety

Ref_hysaposines.jpg [2]

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Triton IV, 05 Dec. 2000, n°326 = Gemini, II, 11 Jan. 2006, n°150

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Diademed head of king right

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΕ ΑPΣΑΚΟΥ (Greek) Tyche seated left on backless throne with winged tritoness support, extended right hand holding Nike who crowns her, left hand cradling cornucopia.

Mint and issuing power

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

Seleuceia ad Tigrim

Ancient regionAncient region.

Mesopotamia

Modern countryModern country: Iraq

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:

Parthian Empire, Bagasis (satrap of Media Atropatene)

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 127 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 126 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: 15.3915.39 g <br />15,390 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

Assar 2001, p.18, fig.1

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

Sellwood 19801Sellwood 1980, n°18.1

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Diademed head of Hyspaosines to right

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΥΣΠΑΟΣΙΝΟΥ (Greek) Herakles seated left, holding club set on his knee with his right hand and leaning left on rock draped with lion skin

Mint and issuing power

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

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Characene

Modern countryModern country:

AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ^ᵖ:

Hyspaosines of Characene (127-124 BCE)

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 129 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 128 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:

BMC Arabia2BMC Arabia, pl. 54, n°1 var., Assar 20013Assar 2001, fig. 5, Nelson 20114Nelson 2011, n°464

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	rare and spread	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:	sure
RemarksRemarks:	"Overstruck on a tetradrachm of Hyspaosines, the first king of Characene"

References

^ Sellwood, David (1980), An introduction to the coinage of Parthia, 2nd ed., London, Spink & Son, 322 p., 10 pl.
^ Hill, George Francis (1922), Catalogue of the Greek coins of Arabia, Mesopotamia and Persia (Nabataea, Arabia Provincia, S. Arabia, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Assyria, Persia, Alexandrine empire of the East, Persis, Elymais, Characene), London, p.ccxix, p.359, pl.55
^ Assar, Gholam Reza Fahrad (2001), "Recent Studies in Parthian History: Part III," The Celator, 15 (2), p. 17-22.
^ Nelson, Bradley R. (2011), Numismatic Art of Persia: The Sunrise Collection Part I: Ancient- 650 BC to AD 650, Lancaster