3367 - Seuthopolis (Seuthes III) (AE Seuthes/rider) over Cassander (Heracles/lion) (Rauch, Sept. 2010, 119)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3367

317 BCE - 305 BCE | ΣΕΥΘΟΥ

Images

Overstriking coin

SO 432 - Seuthopolis over uncertain mint.jpg

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Rauch (13/09/2010), lot 119 ; Lanz (05/2001), lot 135.

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Male head (Zeus? Seuthes?) right, wearing laurel wreath.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΣΕΥΘΟΥ (Greek) Horsman (Seuthes?) riding to right. Below, star.

Mint and issuing power

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

Seuthopolis

Ancient regionAncient region.

Thrace

Modern countryModern country: Bulgaria

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:

Seuthes III (king of the Odrysian kingdom, c. 331-300 BC)

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 317 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 305 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 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: 4.194.19 g <br />4,190 mg <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

SNG Stancomb1SNG Stancomb, n° 294., HGC 3.22HGC 3.2, n° 1714

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:

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Macedon

Modern countryModern country:

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

Alexander III the Great (Argead king, 336-323 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:

Additional data

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

References

^ Sylloge nummorum graecorum. Great Britain. Volume 11, The William Stancomb Collection of coins of the Black Sea Region, Oxford, 2000, liii p. of plates, map ; 31 cm.
^ 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.