3036 - Athens (AE Athena/owl) over Antigonus Gonatas (Athena/Pan & trophy) (Athenian Agora, T-1157)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3036

224 BCE - 198 BCE | AΘE

Images

Overstruck variety

Location/history


	Archaeological contextArchaeological context:	Athenian Agora, T-1157

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

AΘE (Greek) Owl three-quarters right, head facing, wings lifted. In field, amphora.

Mint and issuing power

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

Athens

Ancient regionAncient region.

Attica

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:

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 224 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 198 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	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 3.453.45 g <br />3,450 mg <br />		AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 66 mm <br />0.6 cm <br />
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 1818 mm <br />1.8 cm <br />		StandardStandard.: Attic

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:	Kroll 1993, n°69i (no illustration)	Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	Svoronos 1923-19261Svoronos 1923-1926, p. 24, n°10-17, Kroll 19932Kroll 1993, 69, HGC 43HGC 4, n°1700
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/athens.kroll 1993.69-70

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Athena r., wearing Corinthian helmet.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Pan erecting trophy.

Mint and issuing power

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

Macedonia (uncertain mint)

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Macedon

Modern countryModern country: Greece

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

Antigonus II Gonatas (Antigonid king, 277/6-239 BC), Macedonian kingdom

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 277 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 239 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:	SNG Copenhagen 34SNG Copenhagen 3, n°1205, Kroll 19932Kroll 1993, n°507, HGC 3.15HGC 3.1, n° 1049, Panagopoulou 20206Panagopoulou 2020, 9.8.3
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/antigonus ii panagopoulou.9.8.3

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	frequent	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:	strong
RemarksRemarks:	"Most and possibly all specimens of this coinage are overstruck on Athena-head/Pan-erecting-trophy AE 2 of Antigonos Gonatas (507)"

References

^ Svoronos, Ioannes N. (1923-1926), Les monnaies d'Athenes, Munich, F. Bruckmann, xix + 114 p. and 39 pl.
a b Kroll, John H. (1993), The Greek coins, Athenian Agora vol. 26, Princeton, xxvi + 376 p., 36 pl.
^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2014), Handbook of Greek Coinage Series 4. Northern and Central Greece : Achaia Phthiotis, Ainis, Magnesia, Malis, Oita, Perrhaibia, Thessaly, Akarnania, Aitolia, Lokris, Phokis, Boiotia, Euboia, Attica, Megaris and Corinthia, sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, lxxi, 563 p.
^ SNG Copenhagen 3. Thessaly-Illyricum. Epirus-Acarnania. Aetolia-Euboea. Attica-Aegina. Corinth. Philiasia-Laconia. Argolis-Aegean Islands, Copenhagen, 1982.
^ 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.
^ Panagopoulou, Katerina (2020), The Early Antigonids. Coinage, Money, and the Economy, New York, ANS, xlv, 390 p., 63 pl.