1859 - Tenedos (tetradrachm Janiform head/labrys) over Thasos (Dionysus/Heracles) (Berlin, MK, Imhoof-Blumer 1900)
From SILVER
170 - 60 | TENEΔΙΩΝ
Images
Overstriking coin
Tenedos 107 Berlin Lambros.jpg
Overstruck variety
Thasos tetradrachm.jpg
Location/history
| Museum collectionMuseum collection: | Berlin, Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen, Imhoof-Blumer 1900. | Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Lambros (Athens). |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Janiform head of a Zeus left, wearing laurel wreath and Hera right wearing stephane. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | TENEΔΙΩΝ Double axe. In field, monogram, grape bunch and lyra. All within laurel wreath. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Tenedos | Ancient regionAncient region. | Troas (Tenedos) | 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: |
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 170 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 60 | Hellenistic 323-30 BC  periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: | WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 16.6516.65 g <br />16,650 mg <br /> | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: Tetradrachm | AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 12 h"h" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property. |
| DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 3737 mm <br />3.7 cm <br /> | StandardStandard.: Attic (reduced) | ||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Fr. de Callataÿ, "Un tétradrachme hellénistique surfrappé sur Thasos", SchwMünz 43 169 (1999), p. 2-4, n° 8 (p. 101, pl. 24 : 8/D5-R1a), F. Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Amsterdam, 1883, p. 269. | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | Fr. de Callataÿ1Fr. de Callataÿ, Guerres mythridatiques, no. 1-38, 56-69, 73-78, 80-94, 101-117., O. D. Hoover2O. D. Hoover, Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian Seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus), Sixth to First Centuries BC - The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, volume 6, Lancaster-London, 2010, no. 390. |
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: | Thasos | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Thrace | 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
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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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