SO 785 - Dionysopolis? over uncertain mint

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3117

225 - 190 | BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ AΛΕΞANΔΡΟΥ

Images

Location/history

Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ᵖ:	G. Severeanu collection

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ AΛΕΞANΔΡΟΥ Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter. In left field, grapes. In exergue, ΛΕΟΝ (?).

Mint and issuing power

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

Dionysopolis?

Ancient regionAncient region.

Thrace

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:

Alexander III the Great (Argead king, 336-323 BC) - pretended authority (types and name)

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 225 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 190

hellenistic periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.:		DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: Tetradrachm

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

G. Severeanu, "Etude sur les Tétradrachmes au type Alexandre le Grand frappés dans les villes pontiques de la Moesie inférieure", Buletinul Societatii Numismatice Române XIX, no. 51-52 (Iulie-Decembrie 1924), p. 5-59, pl. I-II (p. 56, figures 3-4).

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

M. J. Price1M. J. Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, Zurich-London, 1991, no. 959?

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

visible on obverse: shield

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

visible on reverse: ΙΛΕΩΣ

Mint and issuing power

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

Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ

Macedon

Modern countryModern country:

AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ᵖ:

Philipp V?, Antigon Gonatas?

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:
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