3248 - Panticapaeum (AE Apollo/eagle) over Bosporus (uncertain mint) (Dionysus/bow case) (London, BM)
From SILVER
63 - 49 | ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN
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Location/history
| Museum collectionMuseum collection: | London, British Museum (chercher SNG) | |
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 Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, head reverted, wings opened. In left field, monogram. In right field, star. |
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: | Pharnaces I of Pontus (king of Pontus, 2nde c. BC) |
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 63 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 49 | Hellenistic 323-30 BC  periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: | WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 14.2514.25 g <br />14,250 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. | |
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | M. J. Price, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume IX: The British Museum. Part I: The Black Sea, London, 1993, no. 945, pl. XXXV., Howorth 1911. | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | V. A. Anokhin1V. A. Anokhin, Монетное дело Боспора (The Coinage of Bosporus), Kiev, 1986, 214., 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. 111 |
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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