18561 - Panticapaeum (AE Mên/Dionysos) over Panticapaeum (Poseidon/prow) (Triton, V, Jan. 2002, 320)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 18561

91 BCE - 70 BCE | ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN

Images

Overstriking coin

Overstruck variety

Panticapaeum Poseidon prow (overstruck).jpg [2]

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Triton, V, 15 Jan. 2002, 320 = VAuctions, 328,15 Dec. 2017, 99

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. 91 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: 19.4619.46 g <br />19,460 mg <br />
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 3131 mm <br />3.1 cm <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:		Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	Anokhin 19861Anokhin 1986, n° 201., MacDonald 20052MacDonald 2005, n° 170, MacDonald 20093MacDonald 2009, p. 71-72, n° 52, SNG Pushkin I4SNG Pushkin I, n° 1198, HGC 75HGC 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.:

Head of Poseidon

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN (Greek) Prow l.

Mint and issuing power

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

Panticapaeum

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Bosporus

Modern countryModern country: Russia (Crimea)

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. 109 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 105 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:	MacDonald 20052MacDonald 2005, n° 160, HGC 75HGC 7, n° 108
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/panticapaeum.macdonald.2005.160

Additional data

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

References

^ Anokhin, Vladilen Afanasʹevich (1986), Monetnoe delo Bospora, Kiev, Naukova dumka, p. 178, pl. 40.
a b 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.
^ Macdonald, David (2009), Overstruck Greek coins: studies in Greek chronology and monetary theory, Whitman Publishing, Atlanta.
^ Kovalenko, Sergei A. (2011), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Russia : State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Leuven, Paris, Walpole, MA, Peeters, p. 192.
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.