SO 742 - Terone over Acanthus

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3512

500 BCE - 490 BCE

Images

Overstriking coin

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Location/history

Museum collectionMuseum collection:	Athens, Alpha Bank, 6327.

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Amphora. Border of dots.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Quadripartite incuse square.

Mint and issuing power

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

Terone

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. 500 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 490 BCE

Classical ^{480-323 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 15.1815.18 g <br />15,180 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm
		StandardStandard.: Thraco-Macedonian (light)

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

Tselekas 2002), p. 30-40, no. A3.

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

Hardwick 19981Hardwick 1998, no. 2, O. D. Hoover2O. 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. 694

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Lion left clinging with tooth and claw on the hindquarters of a bull kneeling right with head down and looking forwards. Border of dots (visible: head and hindquarters of lion, hindquarters of bull, part of dotted circle).

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Quadripartite incuse square (visible: traces of outline of square, parts of inner vertical lines).

Mint and issuing power

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

Acanthus

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. 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:
RemarksRemarks:

References

^ Hardwick, Nicholas (1998), "The coinage of Terone from the fifth to the fourth centuries B.C.", in Ashton, Richard and Hurter, Silvia (eds), Studies in Greek numismatics in memory of Martin Jessop Price, Spink, London, p.119-134.
^ O. D. Hoover