3073 - Argos (AE Apollo/wolf) over Philip II (Apollo/rider) (M&M, 23, Oct. 2007, 145)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3073

330 BCE - 300 BC | ΑΡΓΕΙΩΝ

Images

Overstriking coin

MM_145.jpg [1]

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Münzen & Medaillen GmbH, 23, 18 Oct. 2007, 145.

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΑΡΓΕΙΩΝ (Greek) Wolf standing right.

Mint and issuing power

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

Argos Amphilochicum

Ancient regionAncient region.

Peloponnesus

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. 330 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 300 BC

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 5.875.87 g <br />5,870 mg <br />		AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 1212 mm <br />1.2 cm <br />
		StandardStandard.: Aeginetic

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:	https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=409329	Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	BMC Thessaly1BMC Thessaly, n°1-7, LHS 96 20062LHS 96 2006, n°1128, HGC 53HGC 5, n° 701 var.
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/argos amphilochicum.bmc.1-7

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Apollo

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Rider galloping to right.

Mint and issuing power

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

Macedonia (uncertain mint)

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Macedon

Modern countryModern country: Greece

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

Philip II (Argead king, 359-336 BC), Macedonian kingdom

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 356 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 336 BCE

Classical ^{480-323 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:

SNG München 10-11 (Makedonien: Könige)4SNG München 10-11 (Makedonien: Könige), n° 141 sq.

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	rare and spread	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:	weak
RemarksRemarks:	"uberprägt auf eine Bronze des Philipp II. (Typ SNG München 141ff.)"

References

^ Gardner, Percy (1883), A Catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. vol. V : Thessaly to Aetolia, London, The Trustees, p. 234, pl. 32.
^ LHS Numismatics, 96 (Coins of Peloponnesos. The BCD Collection), 8-9 May 2006 (1775 lots)
^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2011), Handbook of Greek Coins 5. Coins of the Peloponnesos, Achaia, Phleiasia, Sikyonia, Elis, Triphylia, Messenia, Lakonia, Argolis, and Arkadia, Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster (PA), 2011.
^ Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. München 10-11 (Makedonien: Könige), Munich, 2011.