2268 - Selinus (didrachm leaf/incuse square) over Corinth (Pegasus/swastika) (Freeman & Sear, MBS 15, June 2008, 29)
From SILVER
515 - 470 | ΣΕΛI
Images
Location/history
| Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Freeman & Sear, MBS 15, (27/06/2008), no. 29 ; Seaby (1970). | |
| Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ᵖ: | A. M. Potts collection |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Selinon leaf. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ΣΕΛI Incuse square containing selinon leaf. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Selinus | Ancient regionAncient region. | Magna Graecia (Sicily) | 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. 515 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 470 | Classic 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: 8,52",52" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property. | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: Didrachm | |
| StandardStandard.: Corinthian | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | SNG ANS/Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum1SNG ANS/Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, USA, The Collection of the American Numismatic Society (9 vols.), New York, 1969-1998, no. 685., Arnold-Biucchi 19922Arnold-Biucchi 1992, Florilegium Westermark, p. 17, no. 12, O. D. Hoover3O. D. Hoover, Handbook of Coins of Sicily (including Lipara), Civic, Royal, Siculo-Punic, and Romano-Sicilian Issues, Sixth to First Centuries BC - The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 2, Lancaster-London, 2012, no. 1216 |
Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Pegasus | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Swastika. |
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: 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: | didrachm 
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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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