2218 - Croton (nomos tripod/incuse tripod) over Acanthus (bull & lion/incuse square) (Spink, 5014, Sept. 2005, 17)
From SILVER
480 - 430ϘPO | ϘPO
Images
Location/history
| Museum collectionMuseum collection: | Florence, Museum | |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | ϘPO Tripod. In right field, marsh-bird standing left. Decorated border. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ϘPO Tripod. Hatching border (incuse) |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Croton | Ancient regionAncient region. | Magna Graecia (Bruttium) | 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. 480 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 430 | 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.: stater (Rutter), tridrachm/nomos (Hoover) | ||
| StandardStandard.: Achaian (Hoover) | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | S. Garraffo, "Riconiazioni e cronologie in Magna Grecia", in G. Le Rider et al. (éd.), Kraay-Morkholm essays, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1989, p. 59-67 (p. 60, no. 1a and pl. 71, 2)., Cat. Toderi (Firenze), 1973, 4, 119 | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | SNG ANS/Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum1SNG ANS/Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, USA, The Collection of the American Numismatic Society. Part 3. Bruttium - Sicily 1 (Abacaenum-Eryx), New York, 1975, no. 262., N. K. Rutter et alii (eds.)2N. K. Rutter et alii (eds.), Historia Numorum Italy, London, 2001, no. 2102, 2104 and 2106, O. D. Hoover3O. 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. 1449 |
Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | (visible on obverse: inferior part of circle, posterior part of bull attaked by a lion) | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Acanthus | 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
| DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ: | Tetradrachm |
References
| Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | Regling4Regling, Cat. Warren, 537 |
Additional data
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | ||
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