Savoca Coins
Online Auction 95 | Silver 14 Feb 2021
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Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Philip II AD 247-249.
Bronze Æ
30 mm, 11,94 g
ΑΥΤΟΚΚ MΜ ΙΟΥΛΙ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟOϹ ϹEΒ, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Philip II, right, seen from behind / Upper half: [...|ΧEΩΝ ΜΗΤΡ[...], veiled, turreted and draped bust of Tyche, right, above, ram leaping right, head left, Δ and E flanking. Lower half: [...|OΧEΩΝ ΜΗΤΡO[...] (retrograde), veiled, turreted and draped bust of Tyche, left, above, ram leaping left, head right, Δ and E (retrograde) flanking.
very fine, obverse slightly double struck
For obverse and reverse lower half cf. RPC VIII, - (unassigned; ID 7516); for reverse upper half cf. RPC VIII, - (unassigned; ID 7510).
Normally an overstruck coin is a coin struck on an older coin. Often some of the legend or type on the older coin is still visible and in addition there are usually undertype effects on the new coins design.
Here the reverse struck from two different dies in two halfs, without elements of the type to the opposite half.
As a result the reverse type reflects the other half, whilst the obverse type is only slightly displaced.
Bronze Æ
30 mm, 11,94 g
ΑΥΤΟΚΚ MΜ ΙΟΥΛΙ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟOϹ ϹEΒ, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Philip II, right, seen from behind / Upper half: [...|ΧEΩΝ ΜΗΤΡ[...], veiled, turreted and draped bust of Tyche, right, above, ram leaping right, head left, Δ and E flanking. Lower half: [...|OΧEΩΝ ΜΗΤΡO[...] (retrograde), veiled, turreted and draped bust of Tyche, left, above, ram leaping left, head right, Δ and E (retrograde) flanking.
very fine, obverse slightly double struck
For obverse and reverse lower half cf. RPC VIII, - (unassigned; ID 7516); for reverse upper half cf. RPC VIII, - (unassigned; ID 7510).
Normally an overstruck coin is a coin struck on an older coin. Often some of the legend or type on the older coin is still visible and in addition there are usually undertype effects on the new coins design.
Here the reverse struck from two different dies in two halfs, without elements of the type to the opposite half.
As a result the reverse type reflects the other half, whilst the obverse type is only slightly displaced.