1843 - Tenedos (tetradrachm Janiform head/labrys) over uncertain type (Egger, XLVI, May 1914, 699)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 1843

100 BCE - 70 BCE | TENEΔΙΩΝ

Images

Overstriking coin

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Egger (Vienna), XLVI, 11 May 1914, n° 699 = Hess-Leu (Lucerne), 31, 6-7 Dec. 1966, n° 417 = Nomos, 5, 25 Oct. 2011, 181 = Nomos, 24, 22 May 2022, 185
Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ^ᵖ:	Th. Prowe collection

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Janiform head of a Zeus left, wearing laurel wreath and Hera right wearing stephane.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

TENEΔΙΩΝ (Greek) Double axe. In field, monogram, grape bunch and Artemis with a stag. All within laurel wreath.

Mint and issuing power

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

Tenedos

Ancient regionAncient region.

Troas

Modern countryModern country: Turkey

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. 100 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 70 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 16.5316.53 g <br />16,530 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm	AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 1212 mm <br />1.2 cm <br />
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 3737 mm <br />3.7 cm <br />		StandardStandard.: Attic

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

Callataÿ 1993b

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

Callataÿ 1993b1Callataÿ 1993b, Callataÿ 19982Callataÿ 1998, 5 (O3-R1), HGC 63HGC 6, n° 390

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

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

DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ^ᵖ:

tetradrachm

StandardStandard. ^ᵖ:

Attic

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	rare and spread	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:	"Flan flaw on the reverse, otherwise, nearly extremely fine" (several letters on two lines on the reverse = Athens?)

References

^ Callataÿ, François de (1993), “Un tétradrachme hellénistique de Ténédos surfrappé sur Thasos”, Schweizer Münzblätter, 43 (169), p. 2-4.
^ Callataÿ, François de (1998), "Les monnaies hellénistiques en argent de Ténédos", in Georges Le Rider and Roger Bland (eds.), Studies in Greek Numismatics in memory of Martin Jessop Price, London, p. 99-114, pl. 24-28.
^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2010), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, volume 6 : handbook of coins of the islands: Adriatic, Iionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus), sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 358 p.