SO 876 - Pella or Amphipolis over Gomphi

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3610

274 - 221 | BA and monogram (ANTI)

Images

Location/history

Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ᵖ:	W. Holt collection

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Athena Parthenos right, wearing crested Attic helmet.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

BA and monogram (ANTI) Pan standing right erecting a trophy of Galatian arms. In left field, helmet with plumes.

Mint and issuing power

MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:

Pella or Amphipolis

Ancient regionAncient region.

Macedon

Modern countryModern country:

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:

Antigonus II Gonatas (Antigonid king, 277/6-239 BC)

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 274 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 221

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.:

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

SNG Copenhagen/Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Royal Collection of coins and medals1SNG Copenhagen/Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Royal Collection of coins and medals, Danish National Museum (43 vols), 1942-1979, no. 52, 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. 1049

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of nymph three-quarter facing, slightly right.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Zeus Palamnaeus seated left, holding thunderbolt and sceptre.

Mint and issuing power

MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ:

Gomphi

Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ

Thessaly

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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