2579 - Paphos (double siglos bull/eagle) over Aegina (tortoise/incuse square) (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 2579

430 BCE - 420 BCE | pa-si sa-ta-sa' (Cypriot)

Images

Overstriking coin

Overstruck variety

Location/history

Museum collectionMuseum collection:	Oxford, Ashmolean Museum

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Bull standing left. Above, winged solar disk. In right field, ankh. In exergue, palmette ornament.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

pa-si sa-ta-sa' (Cypriot) (Cypriot) Eagle standing left. In left field, one-handled vase. All within dotted square in incuse square.

Mint and issuing power

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

Paphos

Ancient regionAncient region.

Cyprus

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:

Stasandros of Paphos (king of Paphos, 5th c BC)

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 430 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 420 BCE

Classical ^{480-323 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: 10.9710.97 g <br />10,970 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: double siglos
		StandardStandard.: Persian

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:	Destrooper-Georgiades 2013, p. 24, n° 56	Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	Tziambazis 20021Tziambazis 2002, n° 7, Zapiti - Michaelidou 20082Zapiti - Michaelidou 2008, n° 7, Destrooper-Georgiades 20133Destrooper-Georgiades 2013, p. 24, n° 56
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/paphus.pnu.bmc.14-16

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Land tortoise with segmented shell (visible on the coin's reverse).

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Large square incuse with heavy skew pattern (visible on the coin's obverse : mill-sail reverse pattern).

Mint and issuing power

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

Aegina

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Attica

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. 460 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 430 BCE

Classical ^{480-323 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

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

stater

StandardStandard. ^ᵖ:

Aeginetic

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:	HGC 64HGC 6, n° 435, Meadows (forthcoming)5Meadows (forthcoming), Groups IIa-IIb
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/aegina.meadows askari.2a-c

Additional data

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

References

^ Tziambazis, Elias (2002), A catalogue of the coins of Cyprus: from 560 B.C. to 1571 A.D., Larnaca, 89 p.
^ Zapiti, Eleni - Michaelidou, Lefki (2008), Coins of Cyprus : from the collection of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Nicosia, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 329 p.
^ Destrooper-Georgiades, A. (2013), "Monnaies chypriotes surfrappées des cités-royaumes," in Demetrios Michaelides (ed.), Epigraphy, numismatics, prosopography and History of Ancient Cyprus. Papers in honour of Ino Nicolaou, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature PB 179, Uppsala, p. 9-40.
^ 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.
^ Meadows, Andrew (forthcoming), Greek coinage in the Persian Empire: The Malayer 1934 Hoard (IGCH 1790).