3498 - Aspendus (double siglos athletes/slinger) over Salamis (Heracles/goat) (Destrooper-Georgiades 2013, p. 27, 79)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3498

420 - 410 | EΣTFEΔIIVΣ

Images

Location/history

Museum collectionMuseum collection:	New York, American Numismatic Society ?

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Two naked athletes wrestling. Border of dots.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

EΣTFEΔIIVΣ Slinger advancing right. In right field, triskeles. All within an dotted incuse square.

Mint and issuing power

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

Aspendus

Ancient regionAncient region.

Pamphylia

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:

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 420 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 410

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.: didrachm

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

Destrooper-Georgiades, "Monnaies chypriotes surfrappées des cités-royaumes", in D. Michaelides (ed.), Epigraphy, numismatics, prosopography and History of Ancient Cyprus. Papers in honour of Ino Nicolaou, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature PB 179, Uppsala, 2013, p. 27, n° 79, fig. 25

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

O. Tekin1O. Tekin, " Aspendian 'Wrestlers' : an iconographic approach",Publications de l'Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes 12 (2000), p. 159-169, Series 1

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Herakles seated right (visible on obverse)

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Goat lying right.

Mint and issuing power

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

Salamis

Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ

Cyprus

Modern countryModern country: Turkey

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. 411 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

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