1815 - Citium (Baalmelek) (double siglos Heracles/lion & stag) over Athens (Athena/owl) (London, BM, BMC Crete, 35)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 1815

| B'LMLK (in Aramaic)

Images

Location/history

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) 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. toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context..

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: 11.7111.71 g <br />11,710 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: Stater	AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 3 h"h" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

SNG Copenhagen/Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Royal Collection of coins and medals1SNG Copenhagen/Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Royal Collection of coins and medals, Danish National Museum (43 vols), 1942-1979, no. 9-10, G. F. Hill2G. F. Hill, A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Greek Coins of Cyprus, London, 1904, no. 35

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.:

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).

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. toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context..

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ:

tetradrachm

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ:

Additional data

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