2944 - Thessalonica (AE Janus/centaurs) over Thessalonica (Dionysus/goat) (Veria, Archaeological Museum)
From SILVER
100 - 80 | ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ
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Location/history
| Museum collectionMuseum collection: | Veria, Archaeological Museum. | |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of Janus, wearing laurel wreath. Above, I (value mark). | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ Two centaurs rearing, facing away from one another, holding branches. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Thessalonica | Ancient regionAncient region. | Macedon | Modern countryModern country: Greece | 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. 100 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 80 | periodTime period of the numismatic object. |
Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: As | ||
| StandardStandard.: Semuncial | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Th. Kourempanas, "Two rare overstrikes of the late Hellenistic coins of Thessalonike", Scripta Antiqua (Moscow) 4 (2015), p. 395-397, n° 3. | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | H. Gaebler1H. Gaebler, Die antiken Münzen von Makedonia und Paionia, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands Vol. III, Part 2, Berlin, 1935, p. 120-121, no. 19, O. D. Hoover2O. D. Hoover, Handbook of Coins of Macedon and Its Neighbors. Part I: Macedon, Illyria, and Epeiros, Sixth to First Centuries BC - The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 3, Lancaster-London, 2016, no. 741 |
Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of Dionysus right, wearing ivy wreath. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ Goat standing right. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Thessalonica | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Macedon | 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
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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