2268 - Selinus (didrachm leaf/incuse square) over Corinth (Pegasus/swastika) (Freeman & Sear, MBS 15, June 2008, 29)

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SILVER IDUnique ID of the page : 2268


515 - 470 | ΣΕΛI

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Location/history
Sale(s)Sale(s) : Freeman & Sear, MBS 15, (27/06/2008), no. 29 ; Seaby (1970).
Private collection(s)Private collection(s) : 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: 8.528.52 g <br />8,520 mg <br /> 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. : Corinth Ancient regionAncient region.  Peloponnesus Modern countryModern country: Greece AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. :
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. : didrachm Nomisma.org
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study :
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:

References

  1. ^ SNG ANS/Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum 
  2. ^  Arnold-Biucchi, Carmen (1992), "The beginnings of coinage in the West. Archaic Selinus.", in: Nilsson, Harald (ed), Florilegium numismaticum : studia in honorem U. Westermark edita, Stockholm, Svenska Numismatiska Föreningen, p. 13-19.
  3. ^ O. D. Hoover