2198 - Messana (tetradrachm biga/hare) over Athens (Athena/owl) (Berlin, MK, Imhoof-Blumer - Garraffo 1984, pl. XVIII, 7)
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438 - 434 | MEΣΣANION
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Location/history
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Charriotter driving biga of mules right, holding reins. Above, Nike flying left crowning the charioteer. At the exergue, leaf? | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | MEΣΣANION Hare springing right. Above, head of Pan. Below, olive spray. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Messana | 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. 438 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 434 | Classic 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.: Tetradrachm | ||
| StandardStandard.: Attic | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | C. M. Kraay, "Fifth century overstrikes at Rhegium and Messana", La circolazione della moneta ateniese in Sicilia e in Magna Grecia, AIJN Suppl. 12-14 (1969), p. 145 et pl. 12, n° 10 | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | Caltabiano 19931Caltabiano 1993, series XI, no. 415-424, O. D. Hoover2O. 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. 784 |
Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Athens | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Attica | 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. 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
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | ||
| RemarksRemarks: | |||
