3658 - Byzantium (Lysimachus) (Alexander/Athena) over Aesillas (Alexander/club) (Berlin, MK, 18267441)
From SILVER
| ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΚΟΥ
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Location/history
| Museum collectionMuseum collection: | Berlin, Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen. | |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of deified Alexander the Great right, wearing diadem. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΚΟΥ Athena enthroned left, holding Nike in right hand, left elbow resting on shield, spear behind. In field, monogram. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Byzantium | Ancient regionAncient region. | Thrace | Modern countryModern country: Turkey | 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: | Lysimachus (Macedonian officer, diadochus and king, c. 360-281 BC), Alexander III the Great (Argead king, 336-323 BC) - pretended authority |
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
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: Tetradrachm | ||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | M. Thompson, Byzantium over Aesillas, Revue Numismatique 6 (15), 1973, p. 54-65 | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | O. D. Hoover1O. D. Hoover, Handbook of Coins of Macedon and Its Neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike, Sixth to First Centuries BC - Handbook of Greek Coinage Series 3, Lancaster-London, 2017, no. |
Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | MAKEΔONΩΝ Head of Alexander the Great right. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | AESILLAS Fiscus, club and subsellium. All within oak wreath. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Macedon | Modern countryModern country: | AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ᵖ: | Aesillas (quaestor in the Roman province of Macedonia in c. 90 BC), Roman province of Macedonia |
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 
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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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References
- ^ O. D. Hoover
