3406 - Gorgippia (AE Men/Dionysus) over uncertain type (Roma Numismatics, EA 24, Jan. 2016, 83)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3406

91 BCE - 70 BCE | ΓΟΡΓΙΠΠΕΩΝ

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Overstriking coin

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Roma Numismatics, EA 24, 30 Jan. 2016, 83

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Yound head right in diademed Phrygian helmet, six-rayed star and crescent above.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΓΟΡΓΙΠΠΕΩΝ (Greek) Dionysos standing facing, head to left, holding bunch of grapes and thyrsos. At feet, panther. In field, monogram.

Mint and issuing power

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

Gorgippia

Ancient regionAncient region.

Bosporus

Modern countryModern country: Russia

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: 18.0518.05 g <br />18,050 mg <br />		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).: 3131 mm <br />3.1 cm <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:		Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	SNG Stancomb1SNG Stancomb, n° 617, HGC 72HGC 7, n° 10
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/gorgippia.macdonald.2005.178

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

^ 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.
^ 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.