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

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3135

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

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Overstriking coin

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Overstruck variety

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	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}

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: 16.1216.12 g <br />16,120 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm
		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. ^ᵖ:

Thessalonica

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Macedon

Modern countryModern country: Greece

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

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}

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:	Callataÿ 1996b5Callataÿ 1996b, Bauslaugh 20006Bauslaugh 2000
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/macedonians aesillas bauslaugh.2000.i-vi

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"