3387 - Pella (Perdiccas) (AE Heracles/lion) over Amyntas (Heracles/eagle) (Gorny & Mosch, 200, Oct. 2011, 1399)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3387

365 BCE - 359 BCE | ΠΕΡΔΙΚΚΑ

Images

Overstriking coin

SO 751 - Aegae or Pella over uncertain mint.png

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Gorny & Mosch 200 (10/10/2011), lot 1399.

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.:

ΠΕΡΔΙΚΚΑ (Greek) Lion right, breaking spear in jaws.

Mint and issuing power

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

Pella; Aegae

Ancient regionAncient region.

Macedon

Modern countryModern country:

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:

Perdiccas III of Macedon (Argead king, c. 365-360 BC)

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 365 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 359 BCE

Classical ^{480-323 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 3.183.18 g <br />3,180 mg <br />

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. 114-117 (vol. 8), HGC 3.12HGC 3.1, n° 840

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

AMYNTAΣ (Greek)

Mint and issuing power

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

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Macedon

Modern countryModern country:

AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ^ᵖ:

Amyntas II of Macedon (Argead king, c. 394-393 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

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:

SNG ANS 103SNG ANS 10

Additional data

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

References

^ SNG ANS/Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum
^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2016), Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. 3. Part I: Macedon, Illyria, and Epeiros, sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 437 p.
^ SNG ANS 10