3015 - Magnesia ad Maeandrum (Alexander the Great) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus) over Rhodes (Helios/rose) (CNG, MBS 57, Apr. 2001, 207)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3015

225 BCE - 200 BCE | AΛΕΞANΔΡΟΥ

Images

Overstriking coin

SO 776 - Magnesia ad Maeandrum over Rhodes.jpg

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Classical Numismatic Group 108 (16/05/2018), no. 190; Classical Numismatic Group MBS 57 (04/04/2001), no. 207.

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress. Border of dots.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

AΛΕΞANΔΡΟΥ (Greek) Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter. In left field, monogram (ΜΓ). At the exergue, meander.

Mint and issuing power

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

Magnesia ad Maeandrum

Ancient regionAncient region.

Ionia

Modern countryModern country: Turkey

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. 225 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 200 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 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: 16.9216.92 g <br />16,920 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:	Price 19911Price 1991, n° 2032 var. (only one monogram)
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.2032

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Helios.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Rose.

Mint and issuing power

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

Rhodes

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Caria (Rhodes)

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

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:		Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:

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.