3180 - Panticapaeum? (Asander) (AE Apollo/prow) over Panticapaeum (Apollo/eagle) (CNG, EA 335, Sept. 2014, 27)
From SILVER
46 BCE - 43 BCE | ΑΡΧΟΝΤΟΣ AΣΑΝΔΡΟY
Location/history
| Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Classical Numismatic Group, EA 335, 24 Sept. 2014, 27 | |
| Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ᵖ: | European collection |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of Asander or Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ΑΡΧΟΝΤΟΣ AΣΑΝΔΡΟY (Greek) Prow left and trident. |
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: | Asander of Bosporus (Roman client king of the Bosporan Kingdom, 47-17 BC), Bosporan kingdom |
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 46 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 43 BCE | Hellenistic 323-30 BC |
Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze |
WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 16.3516.35 g <br />16,350 mg <br /> | AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 66 mm <br />0.6 cm <br /> | |
| DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 2525 mm <br />2.5 cm <br /> | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | SNG BM Black Sea1SNG BM Black Sea, n° 964, RPC I2RPC I, n° 1845 | |
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Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Laureate head of Apollo right | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ΠANTIKΠAITΩN (Greek) Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, head right, monogram to left, star to right. |
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: | Bosporan kingdom, Pharnaces II of Pontus (king of the Bosporan Kingdom, 63-47 BC) |
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 63 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 47 BCE | Hellenistic 323-30 BC |
Physical description
References
| Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | MacDonald 20053MacDonald 2005, n° 187, HGC 74HGC 7, n° 111 | ||
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Additional data
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | frequent | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | strong |
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References
- ^ Price, Martin J. (1993), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea, London, [132] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
- ^ Amandry, Michel - Burnett, Andrew - Ripolles, Pere Pau (1998), Roman provincial coinage. I. From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius (44 BC-AC 69), London-Paris, 2 vol., xvii + 812 p., 195 pl.
- ^ 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.

