Damascus

Mints

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 194

The mint at the ancient site of Damascus in Coele Syria.

Die Studies

Item	Image	MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.	WeightCarter 1983 * Median weight * 20000 (*10 if gold or electrum)
Damascus (Alexander the Great), silver, tetradrachms (333-325 BCE) Glenn		Silver	20,963 kg
Damascus (Demetrius II), silver, tetradrachms (128-125 BCE)		Silver	5,831 kg
Damascus (Alexander II Zebinas), silver, tetradrachms (126-122 BCE)		Silver	4,776 kg
Damascus (Alexander II Zebinas), silver, drachms (126-125 BCE)		Silver	250 kg
Damascus (Antiochus VIII and Antiochus IX), silver, tetradrachms (102-99 BCE)		Silver	1,520 kg
Damascus (Demetrius III), silver, tetradrachms (97-87 BCE)		Silver	9,040 kg
Damascus (Demetrius III), silver, drachms (97-87 BCE)		Silver	209 kg
Damascus (Demetrius III), silver, hemidrachms (97-87 BCE)		Silver	42 kg
Damascus (Antiochus XII), silver, tetradrachms (Antiochus XII/cult statue of Hadad) (87-83 BCE)		Silver	6,154 kg
Damascus (Tigranes II), silver, tetradrachms (72-70 BCE)		Silver	3,021 kg
Damascus (Cleopatra VII), bronze, ca 9g (Cleopatra/seated Tyche) (37-32 BCE)		Bronze

Overstriking coins

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Overstruck coins

Item	Overstruck typeImage of the overstruck variety	MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.	DateIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.	Overstriking coinImage of the overstriking coin
2504 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Damascus (Antiochus XII/Zeus) (Saryan coll. - Nercessian 1996, 13)		Bronze	80 BC JL
3409 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Heracles) over Antiochus XII (Damascus) (Antiochus XII/Zeus) (Nercessian 1995, 73)		Bronze	79 BC JL

Description

Nomisma IDNomisma ID	damascus
Definition:	The mint at the ancient site of Damascus in Coele Syria.
Pleiades IDUnique ID of the Pleiades place resource	678106
Ancient regionAncient region.	Syria (Coele-Syria) Nomisma: greek_syria, Nomisma: coele-syria
Modern countryModern country	Syria
CoordinatesGeographical coorindates	33.513000° N, 36.292000° E
Links	http://dbpedia.org/resource/Damascus https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678106 http://sws.geonames.org/9962612/ http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/place/x21219 http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7002261

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Literature

• Glenn 2018
• Hoover - Houghton - Veselý 2008
• Houghton - Müseler 1990
• Iossif - Gerritsen 2021
• Mousheghian - Depeyrot 1999
• Nercessian 2006
• Olivier - Aumaître 2017
• RPC I
• Schwei 2016

Authors

• Corine T. Gerritsen
• Simon Glenn
• Oliver D. Hoover
• Arthur Houghton
• Panagiotis Iossif
• Wilhelm Müseler
• David Schwei
• Petr Veselý