2944 - Thessalonica (AE Janus/centaurs) over Thessalonica (Dionysus/goat) (Veria, Archaeological Museum)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 2944

100 BCE - 75 BCE | ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ

Images

Overstriking coin

Thessalonica over Thessalonica, Veria.jpg [1]

Overstruck variety

Location/history

Museum collectionMuseum collection:	Veria, Archaeological Museum.

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Janus, wearing laurel wreath. Above, I (value mark).

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ (Greek) Two centaurs rearing, facing away from one another, holding branches.

Mint and issuing power

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

Thessalonica

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:

Roman Republic

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 100 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 75 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		DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: As
		StandardStandard.: Semuncial

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:	Kourempanas 2015, p. 395-397, n° 3	Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	Gaebler 19351Gaebler 1935, p. 120-121, n° 19, SNG Copenhagen Macedonia I2SNG Copenhagen Macedonia I, n° 350, HGC 3.13HGC 3.1, n° 741, Kourempanas 20164Kourempanas 2016, n° 17
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/thessalonica.kourempanas 2016.17

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Dionysus right, wearing ivy wreath.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ (Greek) Goat standing right.

Mint and issuing power

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

Thessalonica

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. 148 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 31 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:	Gaebler 19351Gaebler 1935, p. 120, n° 15, Kourempanas 20164Kourempanas 2016, n° 2
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/thessalonica.kourempanas 2016.2

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	frequent	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:

References

a b 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
^ Breitenstein, Niels (1943), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum, 8. Macedonia. Part. 1 Acanthus - Uranopolis - Dynasts, 11 pl.
^ 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.
a b Kourempanas, Theodoros (2016), "Τα ελληνιστικά νομίσματα της Θεσσαλονίκης" , Athens, p. 112, pl. 13.