18542 - Panticapaeum (AE Apollo/Pegasus) over Panticapaeum? (Asander) (Nike/prow) (Roma Numismatics, XVIII, Sept. 2019, 393)

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47 BCE - 20 BCE | ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN

Images
Overstriking coin
Panticapaeum 2481 Roma.jpg [1]
Overstruck variety
Asander Nike prow overstruck.jpg
Location/history
Sale(s) ᵖ: Roma Numismatics, XVIII, 29 Sept. 2019, 393
Private collection(s) ᵖ: From the William Stancomb Collection; this coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume XI, The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea Region (Oxford, 2000); Acquired from David Miller, May 2002.

Overstriking coin

Description
Obverse: Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath Reverse: ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN (Greek) Pegasus grazing left. Border of dots
Mint and issuing power
Mint: Panticapaeum Ancient region Bosporus Modern country: Russia (Crimea) Authority: Asander of Bosporus (Roman client king of the Bosporan Kingdom, 47-17 BC), Bosporan kingdom
Chronology
From 47 BCE to 20 BCE Hellenistic 323-30 BC Nomisma.org period
Physical description
Metal: Bronze Nomisma.org Weight in grams: 6.426.42 g <br />6,420 mg <br /> Axis: 1212 mm <br />1.2 cm <br />
Diameter: 2323 mm <br />2.3 cm <br />
References
Coin reference: Coin series reference: "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1Anokhin 1986, n° 218, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2SNG BM Black Sea, n° 955-6, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3MacDonald 2005, n° 218, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]4HGC 7, n° 121
Coin series web reference:

Overstruck type

Description
Obverse: Bust of Nike right Reverse: ΑΡΧΟΝΤΟΣ AΣΑΝΔΡΟY (Greek) Prow of galley left
Mint and issuing power
Mint ᵖ: Panticapaeum Ancient region ᵖ Bosporus Modern country: Russia (Crimea) Authority ᵖ: Asander of Bosporus (Roman client king of the Bosporan Kingdom, 47-17 BC), Bosporan kingdom
Chronology
From 46 BCE to 43 BCE Hellenistic 323-30 BC Nomisma.org period
Physical description
References
Coin type reference ᵖ: "[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1Anokhin 1986, n° 225, "[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2SNG BM Black Sea, n° 962-3, "[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]5SNG Stancomb, n° 608, "[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]6MacDonald 2009, p. 76, n° 56, "[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]7RPC I, n° 1846
Coin series web reference overstruck:
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikes: rare and concentrated Level of confidence: strong
Remarks:

References

  1. a b  Anokhin, Vladilen Afanasʹevich (1986), Monetnoe delo Bospora, Kiev, Naukova dumka, p. 178, pl. 40.
  2. a b  Price, Martin J. (1993), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea, London, [132] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
  3. ^  MacDonald, David (2005), An introduction to the history and coinage of the kingdom of the Bosporus : including the coinage of Panticapaeum (with "Apollonia" and "Myrmecium"), Phanagoria, Gorgippia, Sindicus Limen or the Sindoi, Nymphaeum, Theodosia, and the kings of the Cimmerian Empire, Lancaster, Penn., London, Classical Numismatic Group, p. 152.
  4. ^  Hoover, Oliver D. (2012), Handbook of Greek Coinages. 7. Coins of northern and Central Anatolia - Pontos, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, lykaonia, and Kappadokia (with Kolchis and the Kimmerian bosporos), Lancaster, lxxxii, 352 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  5. ^  Sylloge nummorum graecorum. Great Britain. Volume 11, The William Stancomb Collection of coins of the Black Sea Region, Oxford, 2000, liii p. of plates, map ; 31 cm.
  6. ^  MacDonald, David (2009), Overstruck Greek coins: studies in Greek chronology and monetary theory, Whitman Publishing, Atlanta.
  7. ^  Amandry, Michel - Burnett, Andrew - Ripolles, Pere Pau (1998), Roman provincial coinage. I. From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius (44 BC-AC 69), London-Paris, 2 vol., xvii + 812 p., 195 pl.