2528 - Syracuse (octobol Persephone/Athena) over Corinth (Pegasus/Athena) (Brussels, KBR, II 89507)
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278 BCE - 275 BCE | BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΥΡΡΟΥ
Location/history
Museum collectionMuseum collection: | Bruxelles, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, II 89507 | Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Galerie des Monnaies et Antiquités (Paolucci-Luxembourg) 1, 26 Sept. 1998, 47. |
Overstriking coin
Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of Persephone right, wearing earings, necklace and corn wreath. In field, dolphin. Border of dots. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΥΡΡΟΥ (Greek) Athena Promachos left, wearing chiton and himation, holding spear and shield. in field, thunderbolt and cornucopia. |
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Syracuse | Ancient regionAncient region. | 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: | Pyrrhus (general, Aeacid king of Molossians, Macedonia and Epirus, 306-272 BC) |
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 278 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 275 BCE | Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object. |
Physical description
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver | WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 7.837.83 g <br />7,830 mg <br /> | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: octobol | AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 77 mm <br />0.7 cm <br /> |
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 2323 mm <br />2.3 cm <br /> | StandardStandard.: Attic |
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Callataÿ 2000, p. 189-213 | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | BMC Thessaly1 , Callataÿ 20002 , HGC 3.13 |
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Overstruck type
Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Pegasus flying left. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Athena left with a corinthian helmet. |
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Corinth | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Peloponnesus | Modern countryModern country: Greece | 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. 350 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 278 BCE | periodTime period of the numismatic object. |
Physical description
DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ: | stater |
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | Ravel 19484 |
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | rare and concentrated | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | sure |
RemarksRemarks: |
References
- ^ Gardner, Percy (1883), A Catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. vol. V : Thessaly to Aetolia, London, The Trustees, p. 234, pl. 32.
- ^ Callataÿ, François de (2000), "Un “octobole” de Pyrrhus surfrappé sur un statère de type corinthien. Réflexions sur les masses monnayées par Pyrrhus en or et en argent", Annali. Istituto Italiano di Numismatica, 47, p. 189-213, pl. XII-XV.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Ravel, Oscar E. (1948), Les "Poulains" de Corinthe : monographie des statères corinthiens. Tome II: (de 414 à 300 J. C.), London, 310 p., 54 pls.