3083 - Amastris (AE Aegis/Nike) over Pontic type (Ares/sword) (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 208)

Coin reference:		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, no. 1315-1318, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2HGC 7, n° 361
Coin series web reference:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/amastris.waddington.1925.17

Overstruck type

Description

Obverse:

Helmeted head of Ares r.

Reverse:

(name of the city) (Greek) Sword in sheath

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 110 BCE to 90 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

period

Physical description

Denomination ^ᵖ:

tetrachalkon

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.]]1SNG BM Black Sea, n° 1147

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikes:	rare and spread	Level of confidence:	sure
Remarks:

References

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.
^ 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.