3362 - Tyre (shekel Melkart/bow) over uncertain type (Gemini, 6, Jan. 2010, 257)
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425 BCE - 394 BCE
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Overstriking coin
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Location/history
| Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Gemini, 6, 10 Jan. 2010, 257. | |
| Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ᵖ: | Dr St. Gerson collection |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Melqarth riding right on winged hippocamp, holding the reins and raising his bow. Below, triple line of waves and dolphin right. Guilloche border. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Owl standing right, head facing. Under rear wing, crook and flail. Guilloche border. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Tyre | Ancient regionAncient region. | Syria (Phoenicia) | Modern countryModern country: Lebanon | 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. 425 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 394 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.: Silver
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 13.8313.83 g <br />13,830 mg <br /> | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: shekel
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| StandardStandard.: Phoenician | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | Elayi - Elayi 20091Elayi - Elayi 2009, n° 246-399, HGC 102HGC 10, n° 315. | |
| Coin series web referenceCoin series web references: | |||
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 (traces on the reverse, in the upper field)." | ||
References
- ^ Elayi, Josette - Elayi, Alain G. (2009), The Coinage of the Phoenician City of Tyre in the Persian Period (5th-4th cent. BCE), Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 188, Leuven, Peeters, 517 p.
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2010), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series. 10. handbook of coins of the Southern Levant : Phoenicia, southern Koile Syria (including Judaea), and Arabia, Lancaster-London, lxxix, 201 p.
