39 BCE - 30 BCE | CAMOCATΩ ΠOΛEΩC
Overstriking coin
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Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ:
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Leu Numismatik, 6, 9 Dec. 2018, 341
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Lion walking right. Border of dots
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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CAMOCATΩ ΠOΛEΩC (Greek) Tyche seated right, on rock, holding a palm-branch in right hand. Border of dots.
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Samosata
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Commagene
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Modern countryModern country: Syria
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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:
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 39 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 30 BCE
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Hellenistic 323-30 BC  periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 10.7810.78 g <br />10,780 mg <br />
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AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 11 mm <br />0.1 cm <br />
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| DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 2222 mm <br />2.2 cm <br />
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References
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩΣ ΚΑΙ (to r., downwards in two lines) ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΑΥΤΟΝΟΜΟΥ (Greek) Zeus seated left, holding Nike and sceptre, date in exergue, above Zeus, thunderbolt, all in laurel wreath
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ:
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Antioch
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Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ
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Syria
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Modern countryModern country: Turkey
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AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ᵖ:
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 48 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 47 BCE
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Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
References
References
- ^ Nercessian, Yeghia T. (1995), Armenian Coins and Their Values, Armenian Numismatic Society Special Publication 8, Los Angeles.
- ^ Kovacs, Frank (2016), Armenian coinage in the classical period, Classical Numismatic Studies 10, Lancaster, 83 p.
- a b 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.
- ^ Wroth, Warwick William (1899), A Catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. vol. XXI : Galatia, Cappadocia, and Syria, London, The Trustees, p. 341, pl. XXXVIII.
- ^ Butcher, Kevin (2004), Coinage in Roman Syria : Northern Syria, 64 BC-AD 253. London : Royal Numismatic Society.
