3481 - Mende (tetradrachm Dionysus on donkey/disk) over uncertain type (Ira & Larry Goldberg, 69, May 2012, 3046)
From SILVER
424 - 422 | MENΔΑΙΟΝ
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Location/history
| Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Ira & Lart Goldberg 69 (29/05/2012), no. 3046. | |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Dionysos reclining left on back of donkey advancing right, holding kantharos. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | MENΔΑΙΟΝ Disk with sixteen-rayed star, in each corner, a grape cluster flanked by trefoils, all within a thick linear square. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Mende | 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. 424 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 422 | Classic 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: 16.9516.95 g <br />16,950 mg <br /> | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: Tetradrachm | |
| StandardStandard.: Attic-Euboic | |||
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. 348., Noe (ANS NNM 272Noe (ANS NNM 27, "The Mende/Kaliandra Hoard") Group III (cf. 86 for probably this obverse die), O. D. Hoover3O. 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. 550 |
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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