2965 - Comana (AE Aegis/Nike) over uncertain type (Peus, May 1975, 201)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 2965

95 BCE - 85 BCE | KOMA-NΩN

Images

Overstriking coin

SO 33 - Comana over uncertain mint.jpg

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Peus, list 39, May 1975, n° 201

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Aegis with Gorgoneion in centre.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

KOMA-NΩN (Greek) Nike advancing right, wearing chiton, holding wreath and palm. In field, monograms.

Mint and issuing power

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

Comana

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. 95 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 85 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

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

Callataÿ 2007, p. 288 (Comana, no. 6)

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

SNG BM Black Sea1SNG BM Black Sea, no. 1262-1263, Callataÿ 20072Callataÿ 2007, p. 288 (Comana, no. 6), HGC 73HGC 7, n° 281

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:	overstruck on undetermined type (Ares/Sword?)

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.
^ Callataÿ, François de (2007), "La révision de la chronologie des bronzes de Mithridate Eupator et ses conséquences sur la datation des monnayages et des sites du Bosphore Cimmérien", in A. Bresson, A. Ivantchik and J.-L. Ferrary (ed.), Une Koinè pontique, Bordeaux, 2007, p. 271-308.
^ 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.