SO 739 - Stageira over Acanthus
From SILVER
520 - 500
Images
Location/history
| Museum collectionMuseum collection: | Winterthur. | |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Lion right attacking a boar kneeling left. Above and below, pellets. Border of dots. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Quadripartite incuse square. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Stageira | Ancient regionAncient region. | Macedon | Modern countryModern country: | 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. 520 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 500 | periodTime period of the numismatic object. |
Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: | WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 16.216.2 g <br />16,200 mg <br /> | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: Tetradrachm | |
| StandardStandard.: Attic-Euboic | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | P. Tselekas, "Late archaic overstruck staters in the Chalkidike", Nomismatika Chronika 21 (2002), p. 30-40, no. C11., Bloesch 1957, 6-7, pl. 1, no. 7-9, Bloesch 1988, no. 1408. | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | O. D. Hoover1O. D. Hoover, Handbook of Coins of Macedon and Its Neighbors. Part I: Macedon, Illyria, and Epeiros, Sixth to First Centuries BC - The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 3, Lancaster-London, 2016, no. 686 |
Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Lion right clinging with tooth and claw on the hindquarters of a bull kneeling left with head raised and looking forwards. In exergue, floral ornament. Border of dots (visible: head ans neck of lion, hindquarters of bull, part of ground line, part of dotted circle). | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Quadripartite incuse square. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Acanthus | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Macedon | 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. 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
- ^ O. D. Hoover
