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

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 2676

111 BCE - 90 BCE | AMIΣOY

Images

Overstriking coin

Amisus_Roma_Numismatics, _E-Sale_68, _27_Feb._2020, _161.jpg [1]

Location/history

	Sale(s)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)Private collection(s) ^ᵖ:	SNG Stancomb, 676 (coll. William Stancomb)

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Ares right, wearing a crested Attic helmet.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

AMIΣOY (Greek) Sword in sheath

Mint and issuing power

MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:

Amisus

Ancient regionAncient region.

Pontus

Modern countryModern country: Turkey

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:

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

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 111 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 90 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 7.287.28 g <br />7,280 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetrachalkon	AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 1212 mm <br />1.2 cm <br />
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 2222 mm <br />2.2 cm <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:	SNG Stancomb, n° 676	Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	SNG BM Black Sea1SNG BM Black Sea, n° 1147-1165, SNG Stancomb2SNG Stancomb, n° 676, HGC 73HGC 7, n° 241
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/amisus.waddington.1925.29

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Mint and issuing power

MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ^ᵖ:

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Modern countryModern country:

AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ^ᵖ:

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context..

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	rare and spread	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:	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.