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|Image reference overstriking coin=https://pro.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=1704497&AucID=3828&Lot=215 | |Image reference overstriking coin=https://pro.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=1704497&AucID=3828&Lot=215 | ||
|Image overstruck variety=Thasos on Aesillas? - Classical Numismatic Group, E-Auction 477, 23 Sept. 2020, 215 overstruck variety.jpg | |Image overstruck variety=Thasos on Aesillas? - Classical Numismatic Group, E-Auction 477, 23 Sept. 2020, 215 overstruck variety.jpg | ||
|Sale=Classical Numismatic Group, E-Auction 477, 23 Sept. 2020, 215 | |Sale=Classical Numismatic Group, E-Auction 477, 23 Sept. 2020, 215 = Heritage 3020, 7 September 2012, 24934 | ||
|Private collection=From the Toliver Besson Collection. From the R. G. Collection | |Private collection=From the Toliver Besson Collection. From the R. G. Collection | ||
|Obverse description=Wreathed head of young Dionysos right | |Obverse description=Wreathed head of young Dionysos right | ||
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|Reverse description=Stylized Herakles standing right, holding club, lion skin draped over arm; N to inner left, legend highly degraded | |Reverse description=Stylized Herakles standing right, holding club, lion skin draped over arm; N to inner left, legend highly degraded | ||
|Mint=Thasos | |Mint=Thasos | ||
|Ancient region=Thrace | |||
|Authority=Roman Republic | |||
|Date from=70 BCE | |Date from=70 BCE | ||
|Date to=50 BCE | |Date to=50 BCE | ||
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|Denomination=Tetradrachm | |Denomination=Tetradrachm | ||
|Standard=Attic | |Standard=Attic | ||
|Coin series reference=Göbl 1971, OTA Class III | |Coin series reference=Göbl 1971, OTA Class III; HGC 6, n° 359 | ||
|Overstruck obverse legend=MAKEΔONΩN | |Overstruck obverse legend=MAKEΔONΩN | ||
|Overstruck obverse legend language=Greek | |Overstruck obverse legend language=Greek | ||
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|Overstruck reverse description=Q Money chest, club, and chair; all within laurel wreath | |Overstruck reverse description=Q Money chest, club, and chair; all within laurel wreath | ||
|Overstruck mint=Thessalonica | |Overstruck mint=Thessalonica | ||
|Overstruck authority=Aesillas (quaestor in the Roman province of Macedonia in c. 90 BC) | |Overstruck ancient region=Macedon | ||
|Overstruck authority=Aesillas (quaestor in the Roman province of Macedonia in c. 90 BC); Roman Republic | |||
|Overstruck date from=95 BCE | |Overstruck date from=95 BCE | ||
|Overstruck date to=65 BCE | |Overstruck date to=65 BCE | ||
|Overstruck period=Hellenistic | |Overstruck period=Hellenistic | ||
|Overstruck denomination= | |Overstruck denomination=tetradrachm | ||
|Overstruck standard=Attic | |Overstruck standard=Attic | ||
|Coin series reference overstruck=Callataÿ 1996b; Bauslaugh 2000 | |Coin series reference overstruck=Callataÿ 1996b; Bauslaugh 2000 | ||
|Frequency of overstrikes= | |Frequency of overstrikes=frequent | ||
|Level of confidence=strong | |Level of confidence=strong | ||
}} | }} | ||
Revision as of 14:28, 27 May 2023
70 BCE - 50 BCE | HPAKΛEOYΣ / ΣΩTHPOΣ / ΘAΣIΩN
Images
Overstriking coin
Thasos on Aesillas? - Classical Numismatic Group, E-Auction 477, 23 Sept. 2020, 215.jpg [1]
Overstruck variety
Thasos on Aesillas? - Classical Numismatic Group, E-Auction 477, 23 Sept. 2020, 215 overstruck variety.jpg
Location/history
| Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Classical Numismatic Group, E-Auction 477, 23 Sept. 2020, 215 = Heritage 3020, 7 September 2012, 24934 | |
| Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ᵖ: | From the Toliver Besson Collection. From the R. G. Collection |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Wreathed head of young Dionysos right | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | HPAKΛEOYΣ / ΣΩTHPOΣ / ΘAΣIΩN (Greek) Stylized Herakles standing right, holding club, lion skin draped over arm, N to inner left, legend highly degraded |
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. 70 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 50 BCE | Hellenistic 323-30 BC  periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 16.3916.39 g <br />16,390 mg <br /> | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: Tetradrachm | AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 11 mm <br />0.1 cm <br /> |
| DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 3333 mm <br />3.3 cm <br /> | StandardStandard.: Attic | ||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | Göbl 19711Göbl 1971, OTA Class III, HGC 62HGC 6, n° 359 |
Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | MAKEΔONΩN (Greek) Head of the deified Alexander the Great right | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | AESILLAS (Latin) Q Money chest, club, and chair, all within laurel 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. 95 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.
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Physical description
| DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ: | tetradrachm
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StandardStandard. ᵖ: | Attic |
References
| Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | Callataÿ 1996b3Callataÿ 1996b, Bauslaugh 20004Bauslaugh 2000 |
Additional data
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | frequent | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | strong |
| RemarksRemarks: | |||
References
- ^ Göbl 1971
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2010), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, volume 6 : handbook of coins of the islands: Adriatic, Iionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus), sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 358 p.
- ^ Callataÿ, François de (1996), "Les monnaies au nom d'Aesillas", in T. Hackens (ed.), Italiam Fato Profugi Hesperinaque Venerunt Litora. Numismatic Studies Dedicated to Vladimir and Elvira Eliza Clain-Stefanelli, Numismatica Lovaniensia 12, Louvain-la-Neuve, p. 113-151.
- ^ Bauslaugh, Robert A. (2000), Silver coinage with the types of Aesillas the Quaestor, Numismatic Studies 22, New York.
