SO 1972 - Samosata over Antioch

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 2773

39 - 30 | ΣΑΜΟΣΑΤΩ ΠΟΛΕΩΣ

Images

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ:	Rauch 95 (30/09/2014), no. 174

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Eagle standing right, wings spread. Border of dots.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΣΑΜΟΣΑΤΩ ΠΟΛΕΩΣ Tyche seated right, on rock, holding a palm-branch in right hand. Border of dots.

Mint and issuing power

MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:

Samosata

Ancient regionAncient region.

Commagene

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. 39 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 30

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: 10,89",89" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

AC 2421AC 242, Kovacs (2016) 2882Kovacs (2016) 288, A. Burnett3A. Burnett, M. Amandry and P. P. Ripollès, Roman Provincial Coinage, vol. 1, From to the death of Caesar to Vitellius (BC 44–AD 69), Paris-London, 1992, no. 3848

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath (visible on reverse: part of)

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Zeus seated (visible on obverse: legend)

Mint and issuing power

MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ:

Antioch

Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ

Syria (Seleucis and Pieria)

Modern countryModern country: Turkey

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:
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