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{{Overstrike
|Image overstriking coin=Citium_over_Athens_London_BM.jpg
|Image overstruck variety visible on the overstriking coin=Citium_over_Athens_London_BM_drawing.jpg
|Image overstruck variety=Athens under Citium.jpg
|Image reference overstruck variety=https://pro.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=2295793&AucID=5588&Lot=138
|Museum collection=London, British Museum, BMC Crete, n° 35
|Obverse description=Herakles in fighting stance to right, wearing lion skin upon his back and tied around neck, holding club overhead in right hand and bow extended before him in left hand. Dotted border.
|Obverse description=Herakles in fighting stance to right, wearing lion skin upon his back and tied around neck, holding club overhead in right hand and bow extended before him in left hand. Dotted border.
|Reverse legend=B'LMLK (in Aramaic)  
|Reverse legend=B'LMLK (in Aramaic)
|Reverse legend language=Aramaic
|Reverse description=Lion attacking stag crouching right inside dotted border within incuse square.
|Reverse description=Lion attacking stag crouching right inside dotted border within incuse square.
|Mint=Citium
|Mint=Citium
|Ancient region=Cyprus
|Ancient region=Cyprus
|Authority=Baalmelek II of Citium (king of Citium and Idalium, 5th c. BC)
|Authority=Baalmelek II of Citium (king of Citium and Idalium, 5th c. BC)
|Date from=425 BCE
|Date to=400 BCE
|Period=Classical
|Metal=Silver
|Weight=11.71
|Weight=11.71
|Axis=3 h
|Denomination=double siglos
|Denomination=Stater
|Standard=Persian
|Coin series reference=SNG Copenhagen/Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Royal Collection of coins and medals, Danish National Museum (43 vols), 1942-1979, no. 9-10;G. F. Hill, A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Greek Coins of Cyprus, London, 1904, no. 35
|Coin series reference=BMC Crete, n° 35; Tziambazis 2002, 19
|Overstruck obverse description=Head of Athena right, wearing Attic helmet (visible: front of the neck, chin, lips of Athena, as well as the outline of the flattened and much distorted nose).
|Overstruck obverse description=Head of Athena right, wearing Attic helmet (visible: front of the neck, chin, lips of Athena, as well as the outline of the flattened and much distorted nose).
|Overstruck reverse description=Owl (visible: trace of one edge of the incuse square, sprig of two leaves and one olive, trace of the outline of the back and portion of the owl's head, much distorted).
|Overstruck reverse description=Skew pattern incuse square.
|Overstruck mint=Athens
|Overstruck mint=Athens
|Overstruck ancient region=Attica
|Overstruck ancient region=Attica
|Overstruck date from=480 BCE
|Overstruck date to=457 BCE
|Overstruck period=Classical
|Overstruck denomination=tetradrachm
|Overstruck denomination=tetradrachm
|Overstruck standard=Attic
|Coin series reference overstruck=HGC 6, n° 437 ; Meadows (forthcoming), Groups IIa-IIb
|Coin series web reference overstruck=https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/aegina.meadows_askari.2a-c
|Frequency of overstrikes=frequent
|Level of confidence=sure
}}
}}

Latest revision as of 07:00, 6 November 2023

Overstrike Database
SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ: 1815


425 BCE - 400 BCE | B'LMLK (in Aramaic)

Images
Overstriking coin
Citium_over_Athens_London_BM.jpg
Overstruck variety
Athens under Citium.jpg [1]
Traces of the overstruck variety
Citium_over_Athens_London_BM_drawing.jpg
Location/history
Museum collectionMuseum collection: London, British Museum, BMC Crete, n° 35

Overstriking coin

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Herakles in fighting stance to right, wearing lion skin upon his back and tied around neck, holding club overhead in right hand and bow extended before him in left hand. Dotted border. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: B'LMLK (in Aramaic) (Aramaic) Lion attacking stag crouching right inside dotted border within incuse square.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: Citium Ancient regionAncient region. Cyprus 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: Baalmelek II of Citium (king of Citium and Idalium, 5th c. BC)
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.. 400 BCE Classical 480-323 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: 11.7111.71 g <br />11,710 mg <br /> DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: double siglos Nomisma.org
StandardStandard.: Persian
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: BMC Crete1BMC Crete, n° 35, Tziambazis 20022Tziambazis 2002, 19

Overstruck type

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Head of Athena right, wearing Attic helmet (visible: front of the neck, chin, lips of Athena, as well as the outline of the flattened and much distorted nose). ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: Skew pattern incuse square.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: Athens Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ Attica Modern countryModern country: Greece 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. 480 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 457 BCE Classical 480-323 BC Nomisma.org periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ: tetradrachm Nomisma.org StandardStandard. ᵖ: Attic
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: HGC 63HGC 6, n° 437, Meadows (forthcoming)4Meadows (forthcoming), Groups IIa-IIb
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:

References

  1. ^  Wroth, Warwick William (1886), A Catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. vol. X : Crete and the Aegean Islands, London, The Trustees, p. 152, pl. XXIX
  2. ^  Tziambazis, Elias (2002), A catalogue of the coins of Cyprus: from 560 B.C. to 1571 A.D., Larnaca, 89 p.
  3. ^  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.
  4. ^  Meadows, Andrew (forthcoming), Greek coinage in the Persian Empire: The Malayer 1934 Hoard (IGCH 1790).

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