3098 - Panticapaeum (drachma Dionysus/stag) over Amisus (Hera/owl) (Golenko 1964, pl. 1, n° 1)

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SILVER IDUnique ID of the page : 3098


105 BCE - 90 BCE | ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN

Images
Overstriking coin
SO 637 - Panticapaeum (drachm) over Amisus?.jpg
Overstruck variety
Amisos Hera Owl overstruck.jpg
Location/history

Overstriking coin

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Head of Dionysos right, wearing laurel wreath. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN (Greek) Stag running right, thyrsus over shoulder.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: Panticapaeum Ancient regionAncient region. Bosporus Modern countryModern country: Russia (Crimea) 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. 105 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 90 BCE Hellenistic 323-30 BC Nomisma.org periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver Nomisma.org DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: drachma Nomisma.org
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: Golenko 1964, pl. 1, 1. Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: Golenko 19641Golenko 1964, pl. 1, 1, MacDonald 20052MacDonald 2005, n° 164, HGC 73HGC 7, n° 100
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:

Overstruck type

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Turreted bust of Hera-Tyche right ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: Owl standing facing, with spread wind, on shield
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 authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. :
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 120 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 63 BCE Hellenistic 323-30 BC Nomisma.org periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. : drachma Nomisma.org
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study : HGC 73HGC 7, n° 233
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: rare and concentrated Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: strong
RemarksRemarks:

References

  1. ^  Golenko, Konstantin V. (1964), Denezhnoe obrashchenie Kolkhidy v Rimskoe vremi͡a = (The monetary circulation of Colchis during the Roman period), Leningrad, Izd-vo. Gosud. Ermitazha
  2. ^  MacDonald, David (2005), An introduction to the history and coinage of the kingdom of the Bosporus : including the coinage of Panticapaeum (with "Apollonia" and "Myrmecium"), Phanagoria, Gorgippia, Sindicus Limen or the Sindoi, Nymphaeum, Theodosia, and the kings of the Cimmerian Empire, Lancaster, Penn., London, Classical Numismatic Group, p. 152.
  3. a b  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.