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

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

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:

Additional data

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

References

^ Anokhin, Vladilen Afanasʹevich (1986), Monetnoe delo Bospora, Kiev, Naukova dumka, p. 178, pl. 40.
^ 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.