2676 - Amisus (AE Ares/sword) over uncertain type (SNG Stancomb, 676)

111 BCE - 90 BCE | AMIΣOY

Overstriking coin

	Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Roma Numismatics, E-Sale 68, 27 Feb. 2020, 161 (privately purchased from A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd; Acquired from Glendining & Co., 12 June 1929)
Private collection(s) ^ᵖ:	SNG Stancomb, 676 (coll. William Stancomb)

Head of Ares right, wearing a crested Attic helmet.

AMIΣOY (Greek) Sword in sheath

Pontus

From 111 BCE to 90 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

Metal: Bronze	Weight in grams: 7.287.28 g <br />7,280 mg <br />	Denomination: tetrachalkon	Axis: 1212 mm <br />1.2 cm <br />
Diameter: 2222 mm <br />2.2 cm <br />

Coin reference:	SNG Stancomb, n° 676	Coin series reference:	"[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1SNG BM Black Sea, n° 1147-1165, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2SNG Stancomb, n° 676, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3HGC 7, n° 241
Coin series web reference:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/amisus.waddington.1925.29

Mint ^ᵖ:

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

Frequency of overstrikes:	rare and spread	Level of confidence:
Remarks:	nb: no mention of overstrike

References

^ Price, Martin J. (1993), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea, London, [132] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
^ 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.
^ 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.