3064 - Panticapaeum? (Asander) (AE Nike/prow) over Amisus (Zeus/eagle) (MacDonald coll., 56)

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46 BCE - 43 BCE | ΑΡΧΟΝΤΟΣ AΣΑΝΔΡΟY

Images
Overstriking coin
SO 699 - Panticapaeum? (Asander) (AE Nike-prow) over Amisus.jpg
Overstruck variety
Amisos Zeus Eagle small.jpg [1]
Traces of the overstruck variety
699 Amisus (drawing).jpg
Location/history
Private collection(s) ᵖ: David MacDonald collection, n° 56

Overstriking coin

Description
Obverse: Bust of Nike right. Reverse: ΑΡΧΟΝΤΟΣ AΣΑΝΔΡΟY (Greek) Prow of galley left.
Mint and issuing power
Mint: Panticapaeum Ancient region Bosporus Modern country: Russia (Crimea) Authority: Asander of Bosporus (Roman client king of the Bosporan Kingdom, 47-17 BC), Bosporan kingdom
Chronology
From 46 BCE to 43 BCE Hellenistic 323-30 BC Nomisma.org period
Physical description
Metal: Bronze Nomisma.org Weight in grams: 7.827.82 g <br />7,820 mg <br /> Axis: 1212 mm <br />1.2 cm <br />
References
Coin reference: MacDonald 2009, p. 76, n° 56 Coin series reference: "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1Anokhin 1986, n° 225, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2SNG BM Black Sea, n° 962-3, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3SNG Stancomb, n° 608, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]4Callataÿ 2007, p. 289, n° 19, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]5MacDonald 2009, p. 76, n° 56, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]6RPC I, n° 1846
Coin series web reference:

Overstruck type

Description
Obverse: Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath (visible: entire outline of head). Reverse: AMIΣOY (Greek) Eagle left on thunderbolt. In field, monogram (visible: portion of eagle's head ans wing, thunderbolt).
Mint and issuing power
Mint ᵖ: Amisus Ancient region ᵖ Pontus Modern country: Turkey Authority ᵖ: Mithridates VI Eupator (king of the Pontic kingdom, c. 120-63 BC), Pontic kingdom
Chronology
From 111 BCE to 90 BCE Hellenistic 323-30 BC Nomisma.org period
Physical description
Denomination ᵖ: tetrachalkon Nomisma.org
References
Coin type reference ᵖ: "[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2SNG BM Black Sea, n° 1144-46, "[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]7HGC 7, n° 237
Coin series web reference overstruck:
Additional data

References

  1. ^  Anokhin, Vladilen Afanasʹevich (1986), Monetnoe delo Bospora, Kiev, Naukova dumka, p. 178, pl. 40.
  2. a b  Price, Martin J. (1993), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea, London, [132] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
  3. ^  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.
  4. ^  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.
  5. ^  MacDonald, David (2009), Overstruck Greek coins: studies in Greek chronology and monetary theory, Whitman Publishing, Atlanta.
  6. ^  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.
  7. ^  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.