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|Date from=250 BCE | |Date from=250 BCE | ||
|Date to=180 BCE | |Date to=180 BCE | ||
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|Metal=Silver | |Metal=Silver | ||
|Weight=16.94 | |Weight=16.94 | ||
Latest revision as of 12:14, 2 May 2024
250 BCE - 180 BCE | BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ AΛΕΞANΔΡΟΥ
Images
Overstriking coin
Odessos 858 Lanz.jpg [1]
Overstruck variety
Alexander the great tetradrachm.jpg
Location/history
| Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Lanz, 154, 11 June 2012, lot 63 | |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ AΛΕΞANΔΡΟΥ (Greek) Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter. Under the throne, monogram (ΔO). In left field, KOI |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Odessus | Ancient regionAncient region. | Thrace | Modern countryModern country: Bulgaria | 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: | Alexander III the Great (Argead king, 336-323 BC) |
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 250 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 180 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: 16.9416.94 g <br />16,940 mg <br /> | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm
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| StandardStandard.: Attic | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Callataÿ 2021a, p. 278, n° 1 | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | Price 19911Price 1991, n° 1167 (var.), Callataÿ 2021a2Callataÿ 2021a, p. 278, n° 1 |
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Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | (Greek) Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter |
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: | Alexander III the Great (Argead king, 336-323 BC) |
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 332 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 250 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: |
Additional data
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | rare and concentrated | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | sure |
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References
- ^ Price, Martin Jessop (1991), The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus: a British Museum Catalogue, 2 vol., Zürich-London, 637 p., 637 p., clix pl.
- ^ Callataÿ, François de (2021), “On pattern and purpose of overstrikes of late Hellenistic tetradrachms in Thrace Macedonia”, in Ulrike Peter and Bernhard Weisser (eds.), Thrace. Local coinage and regional identity, Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 77, Berlin, Topoi, p. 263-289.
