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3135 - Thasos (tetradrachm Dionysus/Heracles) over Aesillas (Alexander/club) (Gorny & Mosch, 186, March 2010, 1021)

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SILVER IDUnique ID of the page : 3135


90 BCE - 70 BCE | HPAKΛEOYΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΘΡΑΚΩΝ (or ΘΑΣIΩΝ)

Images
Overstriking coin
415 - Thasos (tetradrachm) over Aesillas (Gorny.jpeg [1]
Overstruck variety
Aesillas 2nd group.jpg
Location/history
Sale(s)Sale(s) : Gorny & Mosch, 186, 8 March 2010, 1021 = Künker, 318, 11-12 March 2019, lot 127

Overstriking coin

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Head of youthful Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: HPAKΛEOYΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΘΡΑΚΩΝ (or ΘΑΣIΩΝ) (Greek) Herakles standing left, holding club and lion skin. In field, monogram.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: Thasos Ancient regionAncient region. Thrace 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: Roman Republic
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 90 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 70 BCE Hellenistic 323-30 BC Nomisma.org periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver Nomisma.org WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 16.1216.12 g <br />16,120 mg <br /> DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm Nomisma.org
StandardStandard.: Attic
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: MacDonald 2012, p. 327, no. 2 (02-R8), Callataÿ 2021a, p. 281, n° 5 Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: Prokopov 20061Prokopov 2006, Group XIII [OBBa1], MacDonald 20122MacDonald 2012, p. 327, no. 2 (02-R8), HGC 63HGC 6, n° 359, Callataÿ 2021a4Callataÿ 2021a, p. 281, n° 5

Overstruck type

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: MAKEΔONΩΝ (Greek) Head of Alexander the Great right. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: AESILLAS (Latin) Fiscus, club and subsellium. All within oak wreath.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. : Thessalonica Ancient regionAncient region.  Macedon Modern countryModern country: Greece AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. : Aesillas (quaestor in the Roman province of Macedonia in c. 90 BC), Roman Republic
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 85 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 65 BCE Hellenistic 323-30 BC Nomisma.org periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. : tetradrachm Nomisma.org StandardStandard. : Attic
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study : Callataÿ 1996b5Callataÿ 1996b, Bauslaugh 20006Bauslaugh 2000
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: "Besonders bemerkenswert ist das Untergepräge, eine Tetradrachme des Aesillas, von der noch der Lorbeerkranz und der Henkel des fiscus zu erkennen sind"