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

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3509

240 BCE - 230 BCE | ΚΑΛΧΑΔΟΝΙΩΝ

Images

Overstriking coin

SO 49 - Calchedon over Calchedon.jpg

Location/history


Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ^ᵖ:	Coll. William Stancomb

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΚΑΛΧΑΔΟΝΙΩΝ (Greek) Tripod.

Mint and issuing power

MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:

Calchedon

Ancient regionAncient region.

Bithynia

Modern countryModern country: Turkey

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:

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 240 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 230 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 9.699.69 g <br />9,690 mg <br />		AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 11 mm <br />0.1 cm <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

Stancomb 2007, p. 25-32

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

SNG BM Black Sea1SNG BM Black Sea, no. 137-138, HGC 72HGC 7, n° 536

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:

Calchedon

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Bithynia

Modern countryModern country: Turkey

AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ^ᵖ:

Antiochus I Soter (Seleucid king, 281-261 BC)?, Antiochos II Theos (Seleucid king, 261-246 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..

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	exceptional	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:	uncertain
RemarksRemarks:

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.
^ 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.