3509 - Calchedon (AE Apollo/tripod) over uncertain type (Stancomb coll.)

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240 BCE - 230 BCE | ΚΑΛΧΑΔΟΝΙΩΝ

Images
Overstriking coin
SO 49 - Calchedon over Calchedon.jpg
Location/history
Private collection(s) ᵖ: Coll. William Stancomb

Overstriking coin

Description
Obverse: Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath. Reverse: ΚΑΛΧΑΔΟΝΙΩΝ (Greek) Tripod.
Mint and issuing power
Mint: Calchedon Ancient region Bithynia Modern country: Turkey Authority:
Chronology
From 240 BCE to 230 BCE Hellenistic 323-30 BC Nomisma.org period
Physical description
Metal: Bronze Nomisma.org Weight in grams: 9.699.69 g <br />9,690 mg <br /> Axis: 11 mm <br />0.1 cm <br />
References
Coin reference: Stancomb 2007, p. 25-32 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. 137-138, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2HGC 7, n° 536

Overstruck type

Description
Obverse: Reverse:
Mint and issuing power
Mint ᵖ: Calchedon Ancient region ᵖ Bithynia Modern country: Turkey Authority ᵖ: Antiochus I Soter (Seleucid king, 281-261 BC)?, Antiochos II Theos (Seleucid king, 261-246 BC)?
Chronology
From to Hellenistic 323-30 BC Nomisma.org period
Physical description
References
Coin type reference ᵖ:
Additional data

References

  1. ^  Price, Martin J. (1993), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea, London, [132] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
  2. ^  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.