3612 - Amphipolis (First meris) (tetradrachm Artemis/club) over uncertain type (Heritage, 3045, Jan. 2016, 32074)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3612

167 BCE - 149 BCE | MAKEΔΟΝΩΝ ΠΡΟΤΗΣ

Images

Overstriking coin

SO 877 - Amphipolis over uncertain mint.jpg

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Heritage World Coin Auctions, NYINC Signature Sale 3045, 12 Jan. 2016, lot 32074.

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Macedonian shield adorned with bust of Artemis Tauropolos right, wearing stephane, draped, bow and quiver over shoulder.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

MAKEΔΟΝΩΝ ΠΡΟΤΗΣ (Greek) Club. In field, monogram. All within oak wreath. Next to the tie, thunderbolt.

Mint and issuing power

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

Amphipolis

Ancient regionAncient region.

Macedon

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:

Macedonia First Meris (Roman Province), Roman Republic

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 167 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 149 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: 17.8517.85 g <br />17,850 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm
		StandardStandard.: Attic

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:		Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	SNG Ashmolean 3290–32921SNG Ashmolean 3290–3292, Gaebler 19352Gaebler 1935, p. 53-59, n° 156-180, HGC 3.13HGC 3.1, n° 1103
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/macedonia first region.amng.iii.1.156-80

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:	rare and spread	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:

References

^ SNG Ashmolean 3290–3292
^ Gaebler, Hugo (1935), Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands, unter Leitung von Theodor Wiegand. Band III, Makedonia und Paionia. 2. Abt., Verlag W. de Gruyter, Berlin
^ 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.