3748 - Panticapaeum (AE Mên/Dionysos) over uncertain type (Brussels, KBR, Marc Bar coll. n° 328)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3748

90 BCE - 70 BCE | ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN

Images

Overstriking coin

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Location/history

Museum collectionMuseum collection:	Bruxelles, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Marc Bar 328.
Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ᵖ:	M. Bar collection, n° 328

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Mên right, wearing laureld Phrygian cap ornemented with six-rayed star and crescent.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN (Greek) Dionysos standing left, holding bunch of grapes and thyrsus. At his feet, panther. In field, monogram.

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. 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: 17.0217.02 g <br />17,020 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: denomination AA/A	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).: 2424 mm <br />2.4 cm <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:	Bibliothèque royale de Belgique (ed.), Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Belgique : La collection de bronzes grecs de Marc Bar, 2007, n° 328.	Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	Anokhin 19861Anokhin 1986, n° 201., MacDonald 20052MacDonald 2005, n° 170, HGC 73HGC 7, n° 109
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/panticapaeum.macdonald.2005.170

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Mint and issuing power

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

Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ

Modern countryModern country:

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. toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context..

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

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Additional data

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