160 BCE - 52 BCE | AΘΕ / AMΔΙΟ / Ι
Overstriking coin
Athenian_imitation_DMD_139.jpg [MacDonald 2009, p. 185-6]
Overstruck variety
Traces of the overstruck variety
Myrina_Apollon_Sack_8_drawing_DMD_139.jpg
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet. Border of dots.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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AΘΕ / AMΔΙΟ / Ι (Greek) Owl perched on amphora. In field, monogram (?). All within laurel wreath.
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Athens - pretended mint (imitation)
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Attica - pretended area (imitation)
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Modern countryModern country: Greece
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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:
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 160 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 52 BCE
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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.: Silver
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 16.2516.25 g <br />16,250 mg <br />
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DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: Tetradrachm
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StandardStandard.: Attic
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References
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath (visible: portion of Apollo's hair, traces of laurel wreath, nose).
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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MYPINAIΩN (Greek) Apollo Grynios standing right, holding branch with two fillets and phiale. At feet, omphalos and amphora. In field, one or more monograms. All within laurel wreath (visible: traces of wreath, top of Apollo's head, lower edge of garment and feet, branch and fillets).
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ:
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Myrina
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Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ
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Aeolis
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Modern countryModern country: Turkey
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AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ᵖ:
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 160 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 150 BCE
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Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ:
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tetradrachm
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StandardStandard. ᵖ:
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Attic
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References
References
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2014), Handbook of Greek Coinage Series 4. Northern and Central Greece : Achaia Phthiotis, Ainis, Magnesia, Malis, Oita, Perrhaibia, Thessaly, Akarnania, Aitolia, Lokris, Phokis, Boiotia, Euboia, Attica, Megaris and Corinthia, sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, lxxi, 563 p.
- ^ Thompson, Margaret (1961), The new style silver coinage of Athens, Numismatic Studies 10, New York, 2 vol.
- ^ ΜacDonald 2009
- ^ Sacks, Kenneth S. (1985), "The Wreathed Coins of Aeolian Myrina", American Numismatic Society Museum Notes, 30, p. 1-43, pl. 1-22.
Traces of the overstruck variety
