SO 455 - Uncertain mint in Thrace over uncertain mint

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3019

| ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΚΑΥΑΡΟΥ or corruption of the legend

Images

Overstriking coin

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Traces of the overstruck variety

Location/history


Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ^ᵖ:	David MacDonald collection

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΚΑΥΑΡΟΥ or corruption of the legend (Greek) Nike standing left, holding palm and wreath. In field, monogram.

Mint and issuing power

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

Uncertain mint

Ancient regionAncient region.

Thrace

Modern countryModern country: unknown

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:

Kavaros (king of Thrace, late 3rd cenury BC)

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

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 5.185.18 g <br />5,180 mg <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

MacDonald 2009, p. 95, n° 71

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

SNG Stancomb1SNG Stancomb, n° 304 (imitation of this variety)., SNG BM Black Sea2SNG BM Black Sea, n° 194-196 (imitation of this variety)., HGC 3.23HGC 3.2, n° 1357 (imitation of this variety).

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Imitation of Mesambria (visible: uncertain traces)

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

(...)ΛΙ(...)ΛVΛV(…) (Greek) visible: most of outline of shield.

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:

Topalov4Topalov, Месамврия Понтика, p. 132-133, n° 201-202.

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:		Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:	Similar imitations of Mesambria, Numismatik Lanz Auction 97, lot 56

References

^ Sylloge nummorum graecorum. Great Britain. Volume 11, The William Stancomb Collection of coins of the Black Sea Region, Oxford, 2000, liii p. of plates, map ; 31 cm.
^ Price, Martin J. (1993), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea, London, [132] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2017), Handbook of Coins of Macedon and Its Neighbors. 3. Part 2: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike, Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster-London, xix, 232 p.
^ Topalov