168 BCE - 80 BCE | HIHIOHIΛIHΛΕΗΛΙΟΙ ? (sic)
Overstriking coin
SO 430 - Uncertain mint imitating Thasos over Athens?.png
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Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ:
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Ebay seller gallery_perfektsionista
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of youthful Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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HIHIOHIΛIHΛΕΗΛΙΟΙ ? (sic) (Greek) Herakles facing, head left, holding club and lion skin. In field, monogram.
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Thasos - pretended mint (imitation)
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Thrace - pretended area or imitation from Thrace?
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Modern countryModern country:
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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:
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 168 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 80 BCE
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Hellenistic 323-30 BC  periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.:
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 16.2816.28 g <br />16,280 mg <br />
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DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: Tetradrachm
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StandardStandard.: Attic (reduced)
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References
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Athena right, wearing helmet or head of Alexander
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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Owl standing on amphora within oliv wreath or fiscus, club and subsellium within oak wreath.
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Mint and issuing power
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..
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periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ:
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tetradrachm
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References
References
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2010), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, volume 6 : handbook of coins of the islands: Adriatic, Iionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus), sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 358 p.
