NM·2
From Lexicon Leponticum
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Coin Type | |
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| Coin Type: | drachma, Lejeune A2, Pautasso 11, Arslan III |
| Description: | obverse: right-facing female head, reverse: right-facing lion |
| Material (main component): | silver |
| Material Composition: | unspecified silver alloy (probably silver, copper, tin, lead, and traces of antimony) |
| Shape: | irregular round |
| Average Diameter: | 1.5 cm0.590551 in |
| Average Thickness: | |
| Average Weight: | 3.53 g0.00353 kg 0.00778232 lb |
| Workmanship: | struck |
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| Archaeological Culture: | unknown |
| Date: | 4th / 3rd century BC |
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| Number of Known Pieces: | 1 |
| Area of Circulation: | unknown |
| Mint / Main Site: | unknown |
| Coordinates (approx.): | none |
Coin Legend | |
| Idealised Transliteration: | anarekartọṣ |
| Idealised Original Script: |        
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| Variant Reading: |  anarekartọị (older reading)
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| Position: | back, upper area |
| Orientation: | 345° |
| Direction of Writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic Script |
| Letter Height: | 0 |
| Number of Letters: | 11 |
| Number of Words: | 1 |
| Number of Lines: | 1 |
| Inscription Type: | minting authority |
| Language: | Cisalpine Gaulish |
| Syntactic Analysis: | NP |
| Meaning: | "Anarekartos" |
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| Alternative Sigla: | Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 36 A |
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| Sources: | Arslan 1994: 74 Lejeune 1971: 124-126 Marinetti & Prosdocimi 1994: 38-39 Pautasso 1966: 15 & 43-44 & 48 & pl. LXXXVIII (fig. 452) & pl. CII (fig. 511) Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 199 |
Images
 Coin with anarekartos legend of unknown origin
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Commentary
- Current location: lost (Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 199) or unspecified museum in Gotha (source?)
- Markey 2007: 231-232
Bibliography
| Arslan 1994 | Ermanno A. Arslan, "La documentazione numismatica in Lombardia", in: Giovanni Gorini (Ed.), Numismatica e archeologia del celtismo padano. Atti del convegno internazionale; Saint-Vincent 8 - 9 settembre 1989, Aosta: Regione Autonoma Valle d’Aosta, Assessorato del Turismo, Sport e Beni Culturali 1994, 73-84. |
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| Lejeune 1971 | Michel Lejeune, Lepontica, Paris: Société d'Édition "Les Belles Lettres" 1971. (reprint of the article "Documents gaulois et para-gaulois de Cisalpine", Études Celtiques 12/2, 1970-1, pp. 357-500) |
| Marinetti & Prosdocimi 1994 | Anna Marinetti, Aldo Luigi Prosdocimi, "Le Legende Monetali in Alfabeto Leponzio", in: Giovanni Gorini (Ed.), Numismatica e archeologia del celtismo padano. Atti del convegno internazionale; Saint-Vincent 8 - 9 settembre 1989, Aosta: Regione Autonoma Valle d’Aosta, Assessorato del Turismo, Sport e Beni Culturali 1994, 23-48. |
| Markey 2007 | Thomas L. Markey, "Cisalpine ("Lepontic") anareKarTos", Historische Sprachforschung 120 (2007), 231-236. |
| Pautasso 1966 | Andrea Pautasso, Le Monete Preromane dell'Italia Settentrionale, Varese: Centro di Studi Preistorici ed Archeologici 1966. |
| Tibiletti Bruno 1981 | Maria Grazia Tibiletti Bruno, "Le iscrizioni celtiche d'Italia", in: Enrico Campanile (Ed.), I Celti d'Italia, Pisa: Giardini 1981, 157-207. |
