3818 - Gorgippia (AE Apollo/tripod) over Pontic type (aegis/Nike) (Paris, BnF, FG 7)

Fr. de Callataÿ, "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 (éd.), Une Koinè pontique, Bordeaux, 2007, p. 289, no. 18., Golenko 1964, pl. 1, no. 5

Coin series reference:

"[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1MacDonald 2005, n° 179, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2HGC 7, n° 11

Overstruck type

Description

Obverse:

Aegid

Reverse:

Nike advancing right

Mint and issuing power

Mint ^ᵖ:

Amisus

Ancient region ^ᵖ

Pontus

Modern country: Turkey

Authority ^ᵖ:

Mithridates VI Eupator (king of the Pontic kingdom, c. 120-63 BC), Pontic kingdom

Chronology

From 95 BCE to 85 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

period

Physical description

Denomination ^ᵖ:

tetrachalkon

References

Coin type reference ^ᵖ:	"[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2HGC 7, n° 417
Coin series web reference overstruck:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/sinope.waddington.1925.65

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikes:	rare and concentrated	Level of confidence:	strong
Remarks:

References

^ 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.
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.