SO 510 - Thebes over Pharsalus
From SILVER
425 BCE - 400 BCE | Θ-E
Location/history
| Museum collectionMuseum collection: | Athens, Numismatic Museum | |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Boiotian shield. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Θ-E (Greek) Amphora within incuse square. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Thebes | Ancient regionAncient region. | Boeotia | 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. 425 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 400 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: 10.5710.57 g <br />10,570 mg <br /> | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: Stater | |
| StandardStandard.: Aeginetic | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Noe 1954, p. 91, pl. XIV, n°4. | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | Babelon 1901-19321Babelon 1901-1932, Tome 3, Part 2, Noe 19542Noe 1954, p. 91, pl. XIV, n°4, HGC 43HGC 4, n°1312 |
| Coin series web referenceCoin series web references: | |||
Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of Athena right, wearing crested helmet (visible: profls to right and the crest of a helmet, with hair-tresses). | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ΦΑ (Greek) Rider galopping right. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Pharsalus | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Thessaly | Modern countryModern country: Greece | 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. 425 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 350 BCE | Classical 480-323 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
References
| Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | Noe 19542Noe 1954, p. 91, pl. XIV, n°5. | ||
| Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck: | |||
Additional data
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | frequent | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | strong |
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References
- ^ Babelon, Ernest (1901-1932), Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines, Paris, E. Leroux
- a b Noe, Sydney P. (1954), "Countermarked and overstruck Greek coins at the American Numismatic Society", American Numismatic Society. Museum notes 6, p. 85-93.
- ^ 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.
