331 BCE - 315 BCE | ΠΑΤΡΑΟΥ
Overstriking coin
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Overstruck variety
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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ΠΑΤΡΑΟΥ (Greek) Paionian cavaleryman on horseback right, spearing Macedonian enemy lying below who defends himself with shield.
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Damastium
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Illyricum
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Modern countryModern country: North Macedonia
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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:
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Patraus (king of Peonia, 340-315 BC)
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 331 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 315 BCE
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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.: Silver
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DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm
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StandardStandard.: Thraco-Macedonian
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References
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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AΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ (Greek) Eagle right on thunderbolt, head left. In field, aplastron and bee?
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Mint and issuing power
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 336 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 334 BCE
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Classical 480-323 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ:
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tetradrachm
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StandardStandard. ᵖ:
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Thraco-Macedonian
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References
References
- ^ Sear, David R. (1978), Greek coins and their values. Vol. I, Europe, London, xl, 316 p.
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2017), Handbook of Coins of Macedon and Its Neighbors. 3. Part 2: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike, Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster-London, xix, 232 p.
