2154 - Metapontum (nomos ear of barley/ear of barley) over Corinthian type (Pegasus/Athena) (Oxford, AM)
From SILVER
490 BCE
Images
Overstriking coin
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Location/history
| Museum collectionMuseum collection: | Oxford, Ashmolean Museum | |
Overstriking coin
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.: | Metapontum | Ancient regionAncient region. | Magna Graecia (Lucania) | 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: |
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 490 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. | periodTime period of the numismatic object. |
Physical description
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver 
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 7.577.57 g <br />7,570 mg <br /> | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: Stater / Tridrachm / Nomos | |
| StandardStandard.: Achaian | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Sutherland 1952, p. 115, Noe 1957, p. 13-42, pl. V-XIV (group IV, p. 26, l) | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | O. D. Hoover1O. D. Hoover, Handbook of Coins of Italy and Magna Graecia, Sixth to First Centuries BC. - The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 1, Lancaster-London, 2018, no. |
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: | Corinth? | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Peloponnesus? | 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. 525 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 515 BCE | Archaic until 480 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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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: | The Corinthian original, then, should belong most probably to Ravel's "deuxième période, 1re classe" ', being comparable with his dies T 94-T 130. Ravel's dates for this group were 549-510 B.C. | ||
References
- ^ O. D. Hoover
