SO 635 - Panticapeum, Phanagoria or Gorgippia over uncertain mint

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SILVER IDUnique ID of the page : 3567


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Location/history
Archaeological contextArchaeological context: Sivas Hoard (CH IX, 542).

Overstriking coin

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Head of Men (or Mithra ?) right. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: Dionysos standing left.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: Panticapeum, Phanagoria or Gorgippia Ancient regionAncient region. Bosporus Modern countryModern country: 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. toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 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.: WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: c. 17"c" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: 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. 283. Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: O. D. Hoover1O. D. Hoover, Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Anatolia, Pontos, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lykaonia, and Kappadokia (with Kolchis and the Kimmerian Bosporos), Fifth to First Centuries BC - The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 7, Lancaster-London, 2012, no. 10, 109 or 165 (variety struck in 3 cities)

Overstruck type

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Athena. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: Perseus.
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 :
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:

References

  1. ^ O. D. Hoover