SO 732 - Pella over uncertain mint

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 2955

148 BCE - 140 BCE | ΠΕΛΛΗΣ

Images

Overstriking coin

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Münz Zentrum 184 (16/05/2018), lot 35 ; Münz Zentrum 168 (27/12/2013), lot 93.

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΠΕΛΛΗΣ (Greek) Horse grazing right. Under his belly, monogram.

Mint and issuing power

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

Pella

Ancient regionAncient region.

Macedon

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. 148 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 140 BCE

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: 9.649.64 g <br />9,640 mg <br />
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 2121 mm <br />2.1 cm <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

SNG ANS 7 Macedonia I1SNG ANS 7 Macedonia I, n° 598-617, Gaebler 19352Gaebler 1935, Typ 96, 14, HGC 3.13HGC 3.1, n° 615

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Zeus.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

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:		Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:

References

^ Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum ANS 7. The Collection of the American Numismatic Society. Macedonia 1. Cities, Thraco-Macedonian tribes, Paeonian, New York
^ Gaebler, Hugo (1935), Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands, unter Leitung von Theodor Wiegand. Band III, Makedonia und Paionia. 2. Abt., Verlag W. de Gruyter, Berlin
^ 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.