18440 - Gorgippia (AE Men/Dionysus) over Pontic type (Athena/Perseus) (info Ralph DeMarcos, jan. 2023)

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SILVER IDUnique ID of the page : 18440


91 BCE - 70 BCE | ΓΟΡΓΙΠΠΕΩΝ

Images
Overstriking coin
Gorgippia 2473 DeMarcos.jpg
Overstruck variety
Amisus Athena Perseus.jpeg [1]
Location/history

Overstriking coin

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Yound head right in diademed Phrygian helmet, six-rayed star and crescent above. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: ΓΟΡΓΙΠΠΕΩΝ (Greek) Dionysos standing facing, head to left, holding bunch of grapes and thyrsos. At feet, panther. In field, monogram.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: Gorgippia Ancient regionAncient region. Bosporus Modern countryModern country: Russia 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: Mithridates VI Eupator (king of the Pontic kingdom, c. 120-63 BC), Pontic kingdom
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 91 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 70 BCE 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.: Bronze Nomisma.org
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: SNG Stancomb1SNG Stancomb, n° 617, HGC 72HGC 7, n° 10
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:

Overstruck type

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Helmeted head of Athena right ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: AMI - ΣOY (Greek) Perseus standing left, holding harpa and head of Medusa, whose decapitated body lies at his feet
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. : Amisus Ancient regionAncient region.  Pontus Modern countryModern country: Turkey AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. : Mithridates VI Eupator (king of the Pontic kingdom, c. 120-63 BC), Pontic kingdom
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 95 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 85 BCE Hellenistic 323-30 BC Nomisma.org periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study : HGC 72HGC 7, n° 238
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: rare and concentrated Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: sure
RemarksRemarks:

References

  1. ^  Sylloge nummorum graecorum. Great Britain. Volume 11, The William Stancomb Collection of coins of the Black Sea Region, Oxford, 2000, liii p. of plates, map ; 31 cm.
  2. 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.