3555 - Syracuse (Agathocles) (tetradrachm Persephone/quadriga) over uncertain type (Stack’s, Bowers and Ponterio, Jan. 2017, 2027)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3555

310 - 305 | ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ

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Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ:	Stack’s, Bowers and Ponterio (12/01/2017), no. 2027.

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Persephone left, wearing earrings, necklace and grain ear wreath. Around, three dolphins. Below truncation, ΦI (magistrate name).

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ Charioteer driving a fast quadriga left, holding kentron and reins . Above, triskeles. In exergue, monogram.

Mint and issuing power

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

Syracuse

Ancient regionAncient region.

Magna Graecia (Sicily)

Modern countryModern country: Italy

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:

Agathocles of Syracuse (tyrant of Syracuse in 317-289 BC and self-styled king of Sicily in 304-289 BC)

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 310 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 305

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.:	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 17.1217.12 g <br />17,120 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 ANS/Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum1SNG ANS/Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, USA, The Collection of the American Numismatic Society (9 vols.), New York, 1969-1998, no. 640., Ierardi 1995-19962Ierardi 1995-1996, no. 1-84, O. D. Hoover3O. D. Hoover, Handbook of Coins of Sicily (including Lipara), Civic, Royal, Siculo-Punic, and Romano-Sicilian Issues, Sixth to First Centuries BC - The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 2, Lancaster-London, 2012, no. 1348

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:
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