SO 478 - Elea over uncertain mint

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3157

342 BCE - 338 BCE | EΛEA

Images

Overstriking coin

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Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Münzen und Medaillen, Liste 192, Aug. 1959, n°24 = Triton 7, 12 Jan. 2004, n°185

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Demeter facing, turned slightly left, wearing grain wreath. In left field, A.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

EΛEA (Greek) Cerberus left. Below, A.

Mint and issuing power

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

Elea

Ancient regionAncient region.

Epirus

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. 342 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 338 BCE

Classical ^{480-323 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: 7.987.98 g <br />7,980 mg <br />
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 2020 mm <br />2 cm <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:	https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=156874	Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	SNG Copenhagen 31SNG Copenhagen 3, n°49, Franke 19612Franke 1961, n°7-20, HGC 3.13HGC 3.1, n°238
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/elea.franke 1961.elea.ii-iv

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Head of Herakles, wearing lion skin.

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:	exceptional	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:	sure
RemarksRemarks:	"overstruck with the head of Herakles visible on the reverse"

References

^ SNG Copenhagen 3. Thessaly-Illyricum. Epirus-Acarnania. Aetolia-Euboea. Attica-Aegina. Corinth. Philiasia-Laconia. Argolis-Aegean Islands, Copenhagen, 1982.
^ Franke, Peter Robert (1961), Die antiken Münzen von Epirus. I : Poleis, Stämme und epirotischer Bund bis 27 v. Chr. Katalog und Untersuchungen, Wiesbaden
^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2016), Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. 3. Part I: Macedon, Illyria, and Epeiros, sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 437 p.