3555 - Syracuse (Agathocles) (tetradrachm Persephone/quadriga) over uncertain type (Stack’s, Bowers and Ponterio, Jan. 2017, 2027)
From SILVER
310 - 305 | ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ
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Location/history
| Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Stack’s, Bowers and Ponterio (12/01/2017), no. 2027. | |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of Persephone left, wearing earrings, necklace and grain ear wreath. Around, three dolphins. Below truncation, ΦI (magistrate name). | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ Charioteer driving a fast quadriga left, holding kentron and reins . Above, triskeles. In exergue, monogram. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Syracuse | Ancient regionAncient region. | Magna Graecia (Sicily) | Modern countryModern country: Italy | 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: | Agathocles of Syracuse (tyrant of Syracuse in 317-289 BC and self-styled king of Sicily in 304-289 BC) |
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 310 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 305 | 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: 17.1217.12 g <br />17,120 mg <br /> | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: Tetradrachm | |
| StandardStandard.: Attic | |||
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. 640., Ierardi 1995-19962Ierardi 1995-1996, no. 1-84, O. D. Hoover3O. D. Hoover, Handbook of Coins of Sicily (including Lipara), Civic, Royal, Siculo-Punic, and Romano-Sicilian Issues, Sixth to First Centuries BC - The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 2, Lancaster-London, 2012, no. 1348 |
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 | Modern countryModern country: | 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
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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