21165 - Sinope (AE Zeus/eagle) over Amisus (Aegis/Nike) (USA, private coll.)

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SILVER IDUnique ID of the page : 21165


100 BCE - 85 BCE | ΣΙΝΩ-ΠΗΣ

Images
Overstriking coin
Sinope_private_1.jpg
Overstruck variety
Amisos Aegis Nike overstruck.jpg
Location/history
Private collection(s)Private collection(s) : Private coll. (USA)

Overstriking coin

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: ΣΙΝΩ-ΠΗΣ (Greek) Eagle on thunderbolt three-quarter facing, spread wings.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: Sinope Ancient regionAncient region. Paphlagonia 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: 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. 100 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
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze Nomisma.org WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 6.136.13 g <br />6,130 mg <br /> DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: tetrachalkon Nomisma.org AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 1212 mm <br />1.2 cm <br />
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 2222 mm <br />2.2 cm <br />
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: SNG BM Black Sea1SNG BM Black Sea, no. 1543-1549, HGC 72HGC 7, n° 421
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:

Overstruck type

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Aegis with Gorgoneion in centre. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: AMIΣOY (Greek) Nike advancing right, wearing chiton, holding wreath and palm. In field, monograms.
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. : Pontic kingdom, Mithridates VI Eupator (king of the Pontic kingdom, c. 120-63 BC)
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
DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. : tetrachalkon Nomisma.org
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study : SNG BM Black Sea1SNG BM Black Sea, no. 1177-1191, Callataÿ 20073Callataÿ 2007, p. 288 (Amisos, no. 4), HGC 72HGC 7, n° 242
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: rare and spread Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: sure
RemarksRemarks: “OY” partly visible

References

  1. a b  Price, Martin J. (1993), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea, London, [132] p. : ill. ; 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.
  3. ^  Callataÿ, François de (2007), "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 (ed.), Une Koinè pontique, Bordeaux, 2007, p. 271-308.