3418 - Gorgippia (AE Men/Dionysus) over Pontic bronze (Zeus/eagle) (Leu Numismatik, EA 4, June 2018, 218)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3418

90 - 70 | ΓΟΡΓΙΠΠΕΩΝ

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Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ:	Leu Numismatik, EA 4 (24/06/2018), no. 218.

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Bust of Mên to right, drapped, wearing laureate Phrygian cap decorated with star-on-crescent and additional stars.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΓΟΡΓΙΠΠΕΩΝ Dionysos standing facing, head to left, holding bunch of grapes and thyrsos. At feet, panther.

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)

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 90 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 70

Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.:	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 16.6516.65 g <br />16,650 mg <br />		AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 12 h"h" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 3232 mm <br />3.2 cm <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

MacDonald 1781MacDonald 178, O. D. Hoover2O. D. Hoover, Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Anatolia, Pontos, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lykaonia, and Kappadokia (with Kolchis and the Kimmerian Bosporos), Fifth to First Centuries BC - The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 7, Lancaster-London, 2012, no. 10

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Zeus.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Eagle.

Mint and issuing power

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

Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ

Pontus

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:		Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
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