3137 - Pella (Perdiccas) (AE Heracles/lion) over Amyntas (Heracles/eagle) (MacDonald coll., 60)

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|Coin reference=MacDonald 2009, p. 80, n° 60
 
|Coin reference=MacDonald 2009, p. 80, n° 60
 
|Coin series reference=SNG Copenhagen Macedonia I, n° 520-521 ; HGC 3.1, n° 840
 
|Coin series reference=SNG Copenhagen Macedonia I, n° 520-521 ; HGC 3.1, n° 840

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SILVER IDUnique ID of the page : 3137


365 BCE - 359 BCE | ΠΕΡΔΙΚΚΑ

Images
Overstriking coin
SO 753 - Aegae or Pella over uncertain mint.jpg
Overstruck variety
753 1 Amyntas.jpeg [1]
Traces of the overstruck variety
753 - Amyntas (drawing).jpg
Location/history
Private collection(s)Private collection(s) : David MacDonald collection

Overstriking coin

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: ΠΕΡΔΙΚΚΑ (Greek) Lion right, breaking spear in jaws.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: Aegae or Pella 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: Perdiccas III of Macedon (Argead king, c. 365-360 BC)
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 365 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 359 BCE Classical 480-323 BC Nomisma.org periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze Nomisma.org WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 3.623.62 g <br />3,620 mg <br /> AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 11 mm <br />0.1 cm <br />
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 1717 mm <br />1.7 cm <br />
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: MacDonald 2009, p. 80, n° 60 Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: SNG Copenhagen Macedonia I1SNG Copenhagen Macedonia I, n° 520-521, HGC 3.12HGC 3.1, n° 840

Overstruck type

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Head of Heracles right, wearing lion's skin (visible: entire outline of host coin and several locks of hair on lion skin). ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: AMYNTA (Greek) Eagle right devouring snake (visible: outline of eagle from head to wing tip, slight traces of snake).
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. : Ancient regionAncient region.  Macedon Modern countryModern country: AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. : Amyntas III of Macedon (Argead king, c. 393-370 BC)
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 : Westermark 19893Westermark 1989, p. 307-313, n° (A)1, Gaebler 19354Gaebler 1935, p. 160, n° 7.
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:

References

  1. ^  Breitenstein, Niels (1943), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum, 8. Macedonia. Part. 1 Acanthus - Uranopolis - Dynasts, 11 pl.
  2. ^  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.
  3. ^  Westermark, Ulla (1989), "Remarks on the regal Macedonian coinage ca. 413-359 B.C.", in Georges Le Rider, Kenneth Jenkins, Nancy Waggoner and Ulla Westermark (eds.), Kraay-Mørkholm essays : numismatic studies in memory of C. M. Kraay and O. Mørkholm, Louvain-la-Neuve, p. 301-315
  4. ^  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