SO 745 - Terone over Dicaia or Eretria
From SILVER
490 BCE - 480 BCET-E (?)
Images
Overstriking coin
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Location/history
| Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Sotheby New York (21-22/06/1990), lot 355. | |
| Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ᵖ: | N. Bunker Hunt collection |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | T-E (?) (Greek) Amphora with bunches of grapes. 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.: | Terone | 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. 490 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 480 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: 16.6616.66 g <br />16,660 mg <br /> | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm
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| StandardStandard.: Attic-Euboic | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Tselekas 2002, p. 30-40, n° A6., Price-Waggoner 1975, 48, n° 227 | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | Hardwick 19981Hardwick 1998, n° 5, HGC 3.12HGC 3.1, n° 705 |
Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Cow left turning her head to scratch its nose with its left back hoof, within a circular border of dots (visible: head and hoof of cow). | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Octopus within an incuse square (visible: head and tentacles of octopus). |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Dicaia or Eretria | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Euboea or Macedon | 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
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Additional data
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | ||
| RemarksRemarks: | Price-Waggoner 1975, 48 : Argue that the host coin is of Eretria. However, it could also be of Dikaia, a colony of Eretria near the Chalkidike, which issued coins with the same types. | ||
References
- ^ Hardwick, Nicholas (1998), "The coinage of Terone from the fifth to the fourth centuries B.C.", in Ashton, Richard and Hurter, Silvia (eds), Studies in Greek numismatics in memory of Martin Jessop Price, Spink, London, p.119-134.
- ^ 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.
