2944 - Thessalonica (AE Janus/centaurs) over Thessalonica (Dionysus/goat) (Veria, Archaeological Museum)
From SILVER
100 - 75 | ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ
Images
Overstriking coin
File:Thessalonica over Thessalonica, Veria 1.jpg, Thessalonica over Thessalonica, Veria 2.jpg
Thessalonica over Thessalonica, Veria 1.jpg, Thessalonica over Thessalonica, Veria 2.jpg [1]
Overstruck variety
File:Thessalonica Dionysus Goat 1.JPEG, Thessalonica Dionysus Goat 2.JPEG
Thessalonica_Dionysus_Goat_1.JPEG, Thessalonica_Dionysus_Goat_2.JPEG [2]
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 (Greek) 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.. 75 | Hellenistic 323-30 BC  periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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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: | Kourempanas 2015, p. 395-397, n° 3. | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | Gaebler 19351Gaebler 1935, p. 120-121, n° 19, HGC 3.12HGC 3.1, n° 741 |
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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 (Greek) 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. 148 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 31 | Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
References
| Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | |||
| Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck: | |||
Additional data
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | rare and spread | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | |
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References
- ^ Gaebler, Hugo (1935), Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands, unter Leitung von Theodor Wiegand. Band III, Makedonia und Paionia. 2. Abt., Verlag W. de Gruyter, Berlin
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2016), Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. 3. Part I: Macedon, Illyria, and Epeiros, sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 437 p.
