20128 - Syracuse (AE Zeus/eagle) over Syracuse (Persephone/biga) (Classical Numismatic Group, EA 443, 1 May 2019, 10)
From SILVER
287 BCE - 278 BCEΔΙΟΣ ΕΛΛΑΝΙΟΥ | ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ
Location/history
| Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Classical Numismatic Group, EA 443, 1 May 2019, 10 | |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | ΔΙΟΣ ΕΛΛΑΝΙΟΥ (Greek) Head of Zeus Hellanios left, wearing laurel wreath. Border of dots. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ (Greek) Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, with opened wings. Linear border. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Syracuse | Ancient regionAncient region. | Sicily | Modern countryModern country: Italy | 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: | Hicetas (tyrant of Syracuse, 288-279 BC) |
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 287 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 278 BCE | Hellenistic 323-30 BC  periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze
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References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | Calciati 19861Calciati 1986, p. 301-302, n° 154-156, HGC 22HGC 2, n° 1448, Puglisi 20093Puglisi 2009, p. 328, n° 326 | |
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Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | ΣYPAKOΣIΩN (Greek) Head of Kore-Persephone l., wearing barley-wreath | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Prancing biga driven r. by charioteer, holding kentron and reins |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Syracuse | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Sicily | Modern countryModern country: Italy | AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ᵖ: | Hicetas (tyrant of Syracuse, 288-279 BC) |
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 287 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 278 BCE | Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
References
| Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | Calciati 19861Calciati 1986, n° 123 or 122 or 124-127, HGC 22HGC 2, n° 1446 or 1447 or 1466, Puglisi 20093Puglisi 2009, p. 328, n° 328 | ||
| Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck: | |||
Additional data
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | frequent | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | sure |
| RemarksRemarks: | "One overstruck on ... an earlier issue of Hiketas (head of Persephone / biga [CNS 122]" | ||
