3749 - Gorgippia (AE Apollo/tripod) over Pontic type (aegis/Nike) (Oxford, AM, 1925-9-20)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3749

90 BCE - 70 BCE | ΓΟΡΓΙΠΕΩΝ

Images

Overstruck variety

Amisos Aegis Nike overstruck.jpg

Location/history

Museum collectionMuseum collection:	Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 20.9.1925
Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ^ᵖ:	J. G. Milne collection

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΓΟΡΓΙΠΕΩΝ (Greek) Filleted thyrsos leaning against tripod

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. 90 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 70 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: 7.567.56 g <br />7,560 mg <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:	Callataÿ 2007, p. 289, n° 18	Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	MacDonald 20051MacDonald 2005, n° 179, Callataÿ 20072Callataÿ 2007, p. 289, n° 18, HGC 73HGC 7, n° 11
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/gorgippia.macdonald.2005.179

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Aegid

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Nike advancing right

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. 95 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 85 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:	HGC 73HGC 7, n° 417
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/sinope.waddington.1925.65

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.
^ 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.
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.