3179 - Panticapaeum (stater Paerisades/Athena) over uncertain type (Manhattan, 1, Jan. 2010, 69)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3179

125 BCE - 109 BCE | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΑΙΡΙΣΑΔΟΥ

Images

Overstriking coin

SO 604 - Panticapaeum (AU stater) over uncertain type.jpg

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Manhattan 1 (05/01/2010), lot 69.

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Paerisades right, wearing diadem.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΑΙΡΙΣΑΔΟΥ (Greek) Athena enthroned left, holding Nike on right hand, left elbow resting on grounded shield, spear behind. ΠΑΝ monogram (mintmark of Panticapaeum) on throne. In exergue, ornate trident.

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:

Paerisades V of Bosporus (Spartocid ruler of the Bosporan Kingdom, 125-109 BC), Lysimachus (Macedonian officer, diadochus and king, c. 360-281 BC)

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 125 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 109 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Gold	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 8.278.27 g <br />8,270 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: stater
		StandardStandard.: Attic (reduced)

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:	HGC 7, p. 47, n° 197	Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	SNG BM Black Sea1SNG BM Black Sea, n° 960., MacDonald 20052MacDonald 2005, n° 112-113, HGC 73HGC 7, n° 197
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/pairisades v.macdonald.2005.112-3

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:

Lysimachus (Macedonian officer, diadochus and king, c. 360-281 BC)

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..

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:		Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
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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.
^ 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.
^ 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.