3384 - Thessalonica (Aesillas) (tetradrachm Alexander/club) over Athens 125/124 BCE (Athena/owl) (Berlin, Münzkabinett, 214/1907)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3384

95 - 70MAKEΔΟΝΩΝ | AESILLAS Q

Images

Location/history

Museum collectionMuseum collection:	Berlin, Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen, 214/1907.

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

MAKEΔΟΝΩΝ Head of Alexander the Great right. Behind head, Θ.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

AESILLAS Q Fiscus, club and sella curulis. All within laurel wreath.

Mint and issuing power

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

Thessalonica

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:

Aesillas (quaestor in the Roman province of Macedonia in c. 90 BC), Roman Republic

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 95 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 70

hellenistic 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: 16.116.1 g <br />16,100 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: Tetradrachm
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 3030 mm <br />3 cm <br />		StandardStandard.: Attic (reduced)

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

Revue Numismatique 15 (1973), p. 56, pl. A, 1.

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

R. A. Bauslaugh1R. A. Bauslaugh, Silver Coinage with the Types of Aesillas the Quaestor, Numismatic Studies 22, 2000, Groups I-III, V-VI and VIII (dies O94-R353)., 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. 1110

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Athena.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Owl on amphora. ΔΕΜΕΑΣ-ΚΑΛΛΙΚΡΑΤΙΔΗΣ

Mint and issuing power

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

Athens

Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ

Attica

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:

Thmpson3Thmpson, New Style, p. 382

Additional data

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