190 BCE - 170 BCE | ΚΩΙΩΝ
Overstriking coin
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Traces of the overstruck variety
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Asklepius right, wearing laurel wreath.
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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ΚΩΙΩΝ (Greek) Staff entwined by snake. In field, magistrate name.
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Cos
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Caria
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Modern countryModern country: Greece
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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:
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 190 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 170 BCE
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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.:
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 5.35.3 g <br />5,300 mg <br />
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References
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ:
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Sinope
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Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ
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Paphlagonia
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Modern countryModern country: Turkey
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AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ᵖ:
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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..
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periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
References
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.
- ^ 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.
