2926 - Dioscurias (AE pilei/thyrsus) over uncertain type (Pars Coins 2022)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 2926

105 BCE - 90 BCE | ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΑΔΟΣ

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Overstriking coin

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Pars Coins, Ancient coins dealer online.

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Pilei surmounted by stars

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΑΔΟΣ (Greek) Thyrsos.

Mint and issuing power

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

Dioscurias

Ancient regionAncient region.

Colchis

Modern countryModern country: Georgia

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. 105 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 90 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: 5.765.76 g <br />5,760 mg <br />
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 2020 mm <br />2 cm <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:		Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	SNG Stancomb1SNG Stancomb, n° 638, SNG BM Black Sea2SNG BM Black Sea, n° 1021-1023, HGC 73HGC 7, n° 205
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/dioscourias.sng.1993.1021-3

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:	exceptional	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:

References

^ Sylloge nummorum graecorum. Great Britain. Volume 11, The William Stancomb Collection of coins of the Black Sea Region, Oxford, 2000, liii p. of plates, map ; 31 cm.
^ Price, Martin J. (1993), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea, London, [132] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
^ 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.