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:
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
Hellenistic 323-30 BCperiodTime 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: 10.4010.4 g <br />10,400 mg <br />
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).: 2525 mm <br />2.5 cm <br />
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath
ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩΣ ΚΑΙ (to r., downwards in two lines) ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΑΥΤΟΝΟΜΟΥ, Β (Greek) Zeus seated left, wearing himation, holding Nike and scepter
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.ᵖ:
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.. 30 BCE
Hellenistic 323-30 BCperiodTime period of the numismatic object.
"overstruck on an Antiochene bronze of the Zeus/Zeus type, as RPC 4218 ff., possibly an emergency coin struck during the siege of Samosata by Publius Ventidius Bassus and Mark Antony, c. 38 BC"
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.
abAmandry, 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.
periodTime period of the numismatic object.
