3362 - Tyre (shekel Melkart/bow) over uncertain type (Gemini, 6, Jan. 2010, 257)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3362

425 BCE - 394 BCE

Images

Overstriking coin

3362_-_Tyre_(shekel_Melkart-bow).jpg [1]

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Gemini, 6, 10 Jan. 2010, 257.
Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ^ᵖ:	Dr St. Gerson collection

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Melqarth riding right on winged hippocamp, holding the reins and raising his bow. Below, triple line of waves and dolphin right. Guilloche border.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Owl standing right, head facing. Under rear wing, crook and flail. Guilloche border.

Mint and issuing power

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

Tyre

Ancient regionAncient region.

Syria (Phoenicia)

Modern countryModern country: Lebanon

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. 425 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 394 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: 13.8313.83 g <br />13,830 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: shekel
		StandardStandard.: Phoenician

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:		Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	Elayi - Elayi 20091Elayi - Elayi 2009, n° 246-399, HGC 102HGC 10, n° 315.
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/tyre.elayi.2009.ii.1.1.1

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Mint and issuing power

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

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Modern countryModern country:

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. toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context..

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:		Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:	"Overstruck (traces on the reverse, in the upper field)."

References

^ Elayi, Josette - Elayi, Alain G. (2009), The Coinage of the Phoenician City of Tyre in the Persian Period (5th-4th cent. BCE), Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 188, Leuven, Peeters, 517 p.
^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2010), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series. 10. handbook of coins of the Southern Levant : Phoenicia, southern Koile Syria (including Judaea), and Arabia, Lancaster-London, lxxix, 201 p.