SO 633 - Panticapaeum (AE Poseidon/ram) over uncertain type (Delos, Ilot des Comédiens)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3260

109 BCE - 88 BCE | ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN

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Location/history


	Archaeological contextArchaeological context:	Delos, Ilot des Comédiens.

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Poseidon right, trident over shoulder.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN (Greek) Ship's ram composed of three swords.

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)

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 109 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 88 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: c.18"c" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:	Foster - Hackens 1969, n° F411, Callataÿ 2007, p. 283	Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	MacDonald 20051MacDonald 2005, n° 160, HGC 72HGC 7, n° 108
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/panticapaeum.macdonald.2005.160

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Men.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Dionysos.

Mint and issuing power

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

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Pontus

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

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:

Frolova - Ireland 20023Frolova - Ireland 2002, B-b2.

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:		Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
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.
^ 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.
^ Frolova, Nina A. - Ireland, Stanley (2002), The coinage of the Bosporan Kingdom : from the first century BC to the middle of the first century AD, Oxford, J. and E. Hedges : Distributed by Hadrian Books, p. 94, pl. 62.