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|Image overstriking coin=Cos_over_Sinope_Ashton_1.png | |Image overstriking coin=Cos_over_Sinope_Ashton_1.png | ||
|Image reference overstriking coin=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/42668201.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A84346131d3107928774832e9800dc384&ab_segments=&origin=&initiator=&acceptTC=1 | |Image reference overstriking coin=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/42668201.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A84346131d3107928774832e9800dc384&ab_segments=&origin=&initiator=&acceptTC=1 | ||
|Image reference overstruck variety visible on the overstriking coin=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10312738z | |Image reference overstruck variety visible on the overstriking coin=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10312738z | ||
|Museum collection=Fethiye, Archaeological Museum | |Museum collection=Fethiye, Archaeological Museum | ||
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|Reverse legend=ΚΩΙΩΝ | |Reverse legend=ΚΩΙΩΝ | ||
|Reverse legend language=Greek | |Reverse legend language=Greek | ||
|Reverse description=Staff entwined by snake | |Reverse description=Staff entwined by snake and a magistrate's name ending in AOΣ downwards | ||
|Mint=Cos | |Mint=Cos | ||
|Ancient region=Caria | |Ancient region=Caria | ||
|Date from= | |Date from=88 BCE | ||
|Date to= | |Date to=50 BCE | ||
|Period=Hellenistic | |Period=Hellenistic | ||
|Weight=5.3 | |Weight=5.3 | ||
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|Coin series reference=Ingvaldsen 2002, Issue XXI, n°1-140 ; Ashton 2002, pl. 6, n°1; HGC 6, n°1332 | |Coin series reference=Ingvaldsen 2002, Issue XXI, n°1-140 ; Ashton 2002, pl. 6, n°1; HGC 6, n°1332 | ||
|Coin series web reference=https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/cos_stefanaki_2012_12.36 | |Coin series web reference=https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/cos_stefanaki_2012_12.36 | ||
|Overstruck obverse description=Head of Zeus right. | |||
|Overstruck reverse legend=ΣΙΝ | |||
|Overstruck reverse legend language=Greek | |||
|Overstruck reverse description=Eagle standing half left on a thunderbolt with open wings and reverted head. To left a monogram and the ethnic below. | |||
|Overstruck mint=Sinope | |Overstruck mint=Sinope | ||
|Overstruck ancient region=Paphlagonia | |Overstruck ancient region=Paphlagonia | ||
|Overstruck date from=85 BCE | |||
|Overstruck date to=65 BCE | |||
|Overstruck period=Hellenistic | |||
|Coin series reference overstruck=BMC Crete, 178-91 and 179-81; SNG Stancomb, 801-3; Ashton 2002, pl. 6, n°1 | |||
|Coin series web reference overstruck=https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/sinope.waddington.1925.60 | |||
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Revision as of 12:18, 8 May 2024
88 BCE - 50 BCE | ΚΩΙΩΝ
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Overstriking coin

Cos_over_Sinope_Ashton_1.png [1]
Location/history
Museum collectionMuseum collection: | Fethiye, Archaeological Museum | |
Overstriking coin
Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of Asklepius right, wearing laurel wreath. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ΚΩΙΩΝ (Greek) Staff entwined by snake and a magistrate's name ending in AOΣ downwards |
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Cos | Ancient regionAncient region. | Caria | Modern countryModern country: Greece | 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: |
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 88 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 50 BCE | Hellenistic 323-30 BC ![]() |
Physical description
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: | WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 5.35.3 g <br />5,300 mg <br /> | ||
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Ashton 2002, pl. 6, n°1 | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | Ingvaldsen 20021Ingvaldsen 2002, Issue XXI, n°1-140, Ashton 20022Ashton 2002, pl. 6, n°1, HGC 63HGC 6, n°1332 |
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references: |
Overstruck type
Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of Zeus right. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ΣΙΝ (Greek) Eagle standing half left on a thunderbolt with open wings and reverted head. To left a monogram and the ethnic below. |
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Sinope | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Paphlagonia | Modern countryModern country: Turkey | 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. 85 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 65 BCE | Hellenistic 323-30 BC ![]() |
Physical description
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | BMC Crete4BMC Crete, 178-91 and 179-81, SNG Stancomb5SNG Stancomb, 801-3, Ashton 20022Ashton 2002, pl. 6, n°1 | ||
Coin series web reference overstruckCoin series web references overstruck: |
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | ||
RemarksRemarks: |
References
- ^ Ingvaldsen, Håkon (2002), Cos. Coinage and Society. The chronology and function of a city-state coinage in the Classical and Hellenistic period, c. 390 - c. 170 BC, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Oslo University.
- a b Ashton, Richard (2002), "A Sinope-Kos or Kos-Sinope overstrike," in Richard Ashton & Philip Kinns, "Opuscula Anatolica," Numismatic Chronicle 162, p. 27-29, pl. 6, n° 1.
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2010), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, volume 6 : handbook of coins of the islands: Adriatic, Iionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus), sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 358 p.
- ^ Wroth, Warwick William (1886), A Catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. vol. X : Crete and the Aegean Islands, London, The Trustees, p. 152, pl. XXIX
- ^ 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.