3430 - Panticapaeum (AE Apollo/tripod) over Panticapaeum or Phanagoria (Artemis/stag) (MacDonald coll., 54)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3430

90 - 70 | ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN

Images

Location/history

Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ᵖ:	D. MacDonald collection

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN Filleted thyrsos leaning against tripod. In field, monograms.

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:

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: 7.547.54 g <br />7,540 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).: 2424 mm <br />2.4 cm <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

D. MacDonald, Overstruck Greek Coins: Studies in Greek Chronology and Monetary Theory, Atlanta, 2009, p. 75, no. 54

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

MacDonald1MacDonald, no. 171, V. A. Anokhin2V. A. Anokhin, Монетное дело Боспора (The Coinage of Bosporus), Kiev, 1986, 202a., O. D. Hoover3O. 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. 120

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver at shoulder (visible: top knot and part of hair).

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN or ΦΑΝΑΓΟΡΙΤΩΝ Stag lying left (visible: antlers and part of stag's head).

Mint and issuing power

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

Panticapaeum or Phanagoria

Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ

Bosporus

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

DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ:

tetrachalkon

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ:

Anokhin 19864Anokhin 1986, no. 192 and 194.

Additional data

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