3260 - Panticapaeum (AE Poseidon/ram) over uncertain type (Delos, Ilot des Comédiens)

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SILVER IDUnique ID of the page : 3260


109 BCE - 88 BCE | ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN

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Location/history
Archaeological contextArchaeological context: Delos, Ilot des Comédiens.

Overstriking coin

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Head of Poseidon right, trident over shoulder. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN (Greek) Ship's ram composed of three swords.
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)
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 109 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 88 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.: Bronze Nomisma.org WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 1818 g <br />18,000 mg <br />
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: Foster - Hackens 1969, n° F411, Callataÿ 2007, p. 283 Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: Foster - Hackens 19691Foster - Hackens 1969, n° F411, MacDonald 20052MacDonald 2005, n° 160, Callataÿ 20073Callataÿ 2007, p. 283, HGC 74HGC 7, n° 108
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Overstruck type

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Men. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: Dionysos.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. : Ancient regionAncient region.  Pontus Modern countryModern country: 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. 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 : Frolova - Ireland 20025Frolova - Ireland 2002, B-b2.
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:

References

  1. ^  Foster, E. - Hackens, Tony (1969), "Decco metal detector survey on Delos", Archaeometry 11, p. 165-172
  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. ^  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.
  4. ^  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.
  5. ^  Frolova, Nina A. - Ireland, Stanley (2002), The coinage of the Bosporan Kingdom : from the first century BC to the middle of the first century AD, Oxford, J. and E. Hedges : Distributed by Hadrian Books, p. 94, pl. 62.