2422 - Herbessus (AE Sikelia/lyre) over Syracuse (Zeus/thunderbolt) (Berk, BBS 197, April 2016, 446)

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|Sale=BBS 197 (27/04/2016), no. 446 ; Lanz 159 (08/12/2014), no. 38
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|Image overstriking coin=SO 1620 - Herbessus over Syracuse (Lanz,159,8 Dec. 2014,38).jpg
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|Sale=Lanz, 159, 8 Dec. 2014, 38 = Harlan Berk, BBS 197, 27 April 2016, 446
 
|Obverse description=Head of Sikelia right, wearing olive-leaves wreath. Linear border.
 
|Obverse description=Head of Sikelia right, wearing olive-leaves wreath. Linear border.
 
|Reverse legend=ΕΡΒΕΣΣΙΝΩΝ
 
|Reverse legend=ΕΡΒΕΣΣΙΝΩΝ

Revision as of 14:07, 18 September 2022

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page : 2422


325 - 310 | ΕΡΒΕΣΣΙΝΩΝ

Images
Overstriking coin
SO 1620 - Herbessus over Syracuse (Lanz,159,8 Dec. 2014,38).jpg
Location/history
Sale(s)Sale(s) : Lanz, 159, 8 Dec. 2014, 38 = Harlan Berk, BBS 197, 27 April 2016, 446

Overstriking coin

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Head of Sikelia right, wearing olive-leaves wreath. Linear border. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: ΕΡΒΕΣΣΙΝΩΝ Lyra. Border of dots.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: Herbessus 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. 325 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 310 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: 16.6616.66 g <br />16,660 mg <br />
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. 136 (same dies), R. Calciati2R. Calciati, Corpus Nummorum Siculorum. The Bronze Coinage, Milan, 1983-1987, vol. III, p. 252, no. 2 OS-2 OS/3, 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. 414

Overstruck type

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: ΖΕΥΣ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΟΣ Head of Zeus Eleutherios right, wearing laurel wreath (visible on obverse: brow of Zeus starting at truncation of neck of Sicily). ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ Thunderbolt (visible on reverse).
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. : Syracuse Ancient regionAncient region.  Magna Graecia (Sicily) Modern countryModern country: Italy AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. : Timoleon (Greek statesman and general, c. 345-337 BC)?
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 343 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 : SNG ANS 470ff4SNG ANS 470ff
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:

References

  1. ^ SNG ANS/Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum 
  2. ^ R. Calciati 
  3. ^ O. D. Hoover 
  4. ^ SNG ANS 470ff