23663 - Tigranocerta (tetrachalkon Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Leu Numismatik, EA 28, Dec. 2023, 1584)
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Location/history
| Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Leu Numismatik, EA 28, 9 Dec. 2023, 1584 | |
| Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ᵖ: | From a European collection, formed before 2005 |
Overstriking coin
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.: | Ancient regionAncient region. | Modern countryModern country: | 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. toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. | periodTime period of the numismatic object. |
Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: |
Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Veiled bust of Astarte right | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | Humped bull charging left |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Aradus | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Syria | Modern countryModern country: Syria | AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ᵖ: | Armenian kingdom |
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 94 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 24 BCE | Hellenistic 323-30 BC  periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
References
| Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | Duyrat 20051Duyrat 2005, n° 4422-4602, HGC 102HGC 10, n° 80 | ||
| Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck: | |||
Additional data
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | frequent | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | sure |
| RemarksRemarks: | "This coin was overstruck on a civic bronze coin from Arados with the veiled bust of Astarte on the obverse and a bull on the reverse" | ||
