3643 - Panticapaeum (drachma Dionysus/stag) over Amisus (Hera/owl) (https://bosporan-kingdom.com/196-3025/9)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3643

105 BCE - 90 BCE | ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN

Images

Overstriking coin

SO 642 - Panticapaeum (drachm) over Amisus?.jpg [1]

Overstruck variety

Amisos Hera Owl overstruck.jpg

Location/history


	Archaeological contextArchaeological context:	Krasdonar area.

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Dionysos right, wearing laurel wreath.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN (Greek) Stag running right, thyrsus over shoulder.

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:

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. 105 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

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver		DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: drachma

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:	http://bosporan-kingdom.com/196-3025/9.html	Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	MacDonald 20051MacDonald 2005, n° 164, HGC 72HGC 7, n° 100
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/panticapaeum.macdonald.2005.164

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Turreted bust of Hera-Tyche right

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Owl standing facing, with spread wind, on shield

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:

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 120 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 63 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:

drachma

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:	HGC 72HGC 7, n° 233
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/amisus.waddington.1925.9-10?lang=en

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	rare and concentrated	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:	sure
RemarksRemarks:

References

^ MacDonald, David (2005), An introduction to the history and coinage of the kingdom of the Bosporus : including the coinage of Panticapaeum (with "Apollonia" and "Myrmecium"), Phanagoria, Gorgippia, Sindicus Limen or the Sindoi, Nymphaeum, Theodosia, and the kings of the Cimmerian Empire, Lancaster, Penn., London, Classical Numismatic Group, p. 152.
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.