2944 - Thessalonica (AE Janus/centaurs) over Thessalonica (Dionysus/goat) (Veria, Archaeological Museum): Difference between revisions

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Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 2944

100 - 75 | ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ

Images

Overstriking coin

File:Thessalonica over Thessalonica, Veria 1.jpg, Thessalonica over Thessalonica, Veria 2.jpg

Thessalonica_over_Thessalonica,_Veria_1.jpg, Thessalonica_over_Thessalonica,_Veria_2.jpg [1]

Overstruck variety

File:Thessalonica Dionysus Goat 1.JPEG, Thessalonica Dionysus Goat 2.JPEG

Thessalonica_Dionysus_Goat_1.JPEG, Thessalonica_Dionysus_Goat_2.JPEG [2]

Location/history

Museum collectionMuseum collection:	Veria, Archaeological Museum.

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Janus, wearing laurel wreath. Above, I (value mark).

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ (Greek) Two centaurs rearing, facing away from one another, holding branches.

Mint and issuing power

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

Thessalonica

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:

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 100 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 75

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.:		DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: As
		StandardStandard.: Semuncial

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:	Kourempanas 2015, p. 395-397, n° 3.	Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	Gaebler 19351Gaebler 1935, p. 120-121, n° 19, HGC 3.12HGC 3.1, n° 741
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/thessalonica.kourempanas 2016.17

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Dionysus right, wearing ivy wreath.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ (Greek) Goat standing right.

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:

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 148 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 31

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/thessalonica.kourempanas 2016.2

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	rare and spread	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:

References

^ 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.

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 |Reverse legend=ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ
+|Reverse legend language=Greek
 |Reverse description=Two centaurs rearing, facing away from one another, holding branches.
 |Mint=Thessalonica
 |Ancient region=Macedon
 |Date from=100
-|Date to=80
+|Date to=75
+|Period=Hellenistic
 |Denomination=As
 |Standard=Semuncial
-|Coin reference=Th. Kourempanas, "Two rare overstrikes of the late Hellenistic coins of Thessalonike", Scripta Antiqua (Moscow) 4 (2015), p. 395-397, n° 3.
+|Coin reference=Kourempanas 2015, p. 395-397, n° 3.
-|Coin series reference=H. Gaebler, Die antiken Münzen von Makedonia und Paionia, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands Vol. III, Part 2, Berlin, 1935, p. 120-121, no. 19;O. D. Hoover, Handbook of Coins of Macedon and Its Neighbors. Part I: Macedon, Illyria, and Epeiros, Sixth to First Centuries BC - The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 3, Lancaster-London, 2016, no. 741
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 |Overstruck reverse legend=ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ
+|Overstruck reverse legend language=Greek
 |Overstruck reverse description=Goat standing right.
 |Overstruck mint=Thessalonica
 |Overstruck ancient region=Macedon
+|Overstruck date from=148
+|Overstruck date to=31
+|Overstruck period=Hellenistic
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+|Frequency of overstrikes=rare and spread
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