3040 - Panticapaeum? (Asander) (AE Nike/prow) over Amisus (Ares/sword) (CNG, EA 222, Nov. 2009, 151)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3040

46 BCE - 43 BCE | ΑΡΧΟΝΤΟΣ AΣΑΝΔΡΟY

Images

Overstriking coin

SO 702 - Panticapaeum? (Asander) (AE Nike-prow) over Amisus (Ares-sword).jpg

Overstruck variety

Amisus Ares.jpeg [1]

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Classical Numismatic Group, EA 222, 11 Nov. 2009, 151 = Münzen & Medaillen, 13, 9 Oct. 2003, 157
Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ^ᵖ:	J. P. Righetti collection

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Bust of Nike right.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΑΡΧΟΝΤΟΣ AΣΑΝΔΡΟY (Greek) Prow of galley left.

Mint and issuing power

MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:

Panticapaeum

Ancient regionAncient region.

Bosporus

Modern countryModern country: Russia (Crimea)

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:

Asander of Bosporus (Roman client king of the Bosporan Kingdom, 47-17 BC), Bosporan kingdom

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 46 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 43 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 7.787.78 g <br />7,780 mg <br />		AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 11 mm <br />0.1 cm <br />
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 1818 mm <br />1.8 cm <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:	B. Kapossy, Münzen der Antike : Katalog der Sammlung Jean-Pierre Righetti im Bernischen Historischen Museum, Bern, 1993, , no. ?.	Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	Anokhin 19861Anokhin 1986, n° 225., RPC I2RPC I, n° 1846, SNG BM Black Sea3SNG BM Black Sea, n° 962-3
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1846

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Helmeted head of Ares right

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

AMI - ΣOV (Greek) Sword in sheath

Mint and issuing power

MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ^ᵖ:

Amisus

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Pontus

Modern countryModern country: Turkey

AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ^ᵖ:

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. 111 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 90 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ^ᵖ:

tetrachalkon

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:	SNG BM Black Sea3SNG BM Black Sea, n° 1163, HGC 74HGC 7, n° 241
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/amisus.waddington.1925.29

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	frequent	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:	sure
RemarksRemarks:

References

^ Anokhin, Vladilen Afanasʹevich (1986), Monetnoe delo Bospora, Kiev, Naukova dumka, p. 178, pl. 40.
^ Amandry, Michel - Burnett, Andrew - Ripolles, Pere Pau (1998), Roman provincial coinage. I. From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius (44 BC-AC 69), London-Paris, 2 vol., xvii + 812 p., 195 pl.
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.
^ 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.