18561 - Panticapaeum (AE Mên/Dionysos) over Panticapaeum (Poseidon/prow) (Triton, V, Jan. 2002, 320)

Overstrike Database

SILVER ID ^ᵖ: 18561

91 BCE - 70 BCE | ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN

Images

Overstriking coin

Overstruck variety

Panticapaeum Poseidon prow (overstruck).jpg [2]

Location/history

	Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Triton, V, 15 Jan. 2002, 320 = VAuctions, 328,15 Dec. 2017, 99

Overstriking coin

Description

Obverse:

Head of Mên right, wearing laureld Phrygian cap ornemented with six-rayed star and crescent

Reverse:

ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN (Greek) Dionysos standing left, holding bunch of grapes and thyrsus. At his feet, panther. In field, monogram

Mint and issuing power

Mint:

Panticapaeum

Ancient region

Bosporus

Modern country: Russia (Crimea)

Authority:

Mithridates VI Eupator (king of the Pontic kingdom, c. 120-63 BC), Pontic kingdom

Chronology

From 91 BCE to 70 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

period

Physical description

Metal: Bronze	Weight in grams: 19.4619.46 g <br />19,460 mg <br />
Diameter: 3131 mm <br />3.1 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° 201., "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2MacDonald 2005, n° 170, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3MacDonald 2009, p. 71-72, n° 52, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]4SNG Pushkin I, n° 1198, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]5HGC 7, n° 109
Coin series web reference:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/panticapaeum.macdonald.2005.170

Overstruck type

Description

Obverse:

Head of Poseidon

Reverse:

ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN (Greek) Prow l.

Mint and issuing power

Mint ^ᵖ:

Panticapaeum

Ancient region ^ᵖ

Bosporus

Modern country: Russia (Crimea)

Authority ^ᵖ:

Mithridates VI Eupator (king of the Pontic kingdom, c. 120-63 BC), Pontic kingdom

Chronology

From 109 BCE to 105 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

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.]]2MacDonald 2005, n° 160, "[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]5HGC 7, n° 108
Coin series web reference overstruck:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/panticapaeum.macdonald.2005.160

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikes:	rare and concentrated	Level of confidence:	sure
Remarks:

References

^ Anokhin, Vladilen Afanasʹevich (1986), Monetnoe delo Bospora, Kiev, Naukova dumka, p. 178, pl. 40.
a b 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.
^ MacDonald, David (2009), Overstruck Greek coins: studies in Greek chronology and monetary theory, Whitman Publishing, Atlanta.
^ Kovalenko, Sergei A. (2011), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Russia : State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Leuven, Paris, Walpole, MA, Peeters, p. 192.
a b 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.