SO 1460 - Samos over Aegina
From SILVER
482 - 439 | ΣΑ
Images
Location/history
| Museum collectionMuseum collection: | Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fonds général 3230 | |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Lion scalp facing. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ΣΑ Head of ox right within incuse square. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Samos | Ancient regionAncient region. | Ionia | 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. 482 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 439 | 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: 12.712.7 g <br />12,700 mg <br /> | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetradrachm 
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AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 3 h"h" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property. |
| StandardStandard.: Samian | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | J. P. Barron, The Silver Coins of Samos, London, 1966, class II, no. 12 (p. 50, pl. VIII)., Babelon, Traité des monnaies, 461, pl. xi, 28 | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | J. P. Barron1J. P. Barron, The Silver Coins of Samos, London, 1966, class II, 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. 1185 |
Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Turtle | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Incuse square (visible on reverse: 'small skew') |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Aegina | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Aegina | 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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