3784 - Panticapaeum (AE Apollo/eagle) over Bosporus (uncertain mint) (Dionysus/bow case) (CNG, EA 233, May 2010, 183)

Overstrike Database

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3784

63 BCE - 49 BCE | ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN

Images

Overstriking coin

SO 666 - Panticapaeum (AE-eagle) over Panticapaeum.jpg

Overstruck variety

Panticapaeum Dionysos bow case.jpeg [1]

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Classical Numismatic Group EA 233 (26/05/2010), lot 183.

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 (Greek) 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 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 49 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 16.3716.37 g <br />16,370 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: denomination AA/A	AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 1212 mm <br />1.2 cm <br />
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 2525 mm <br />2.5 cm <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

SNG BM Black Sea1SNG BM Black Sea, n° 945., Anokhin 19862Anokhin 1986, n° 214., HGC 73HGC 7, no. 111

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Dionysos.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Bowcase.

Mint and issuing power

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

Panticapaeum

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Bosporus

Modern countryModern country: Russia (Crimea)

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:

MacDonald 1804MacDonald 180

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:		Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:

References

^ Price, Martin J. (1993), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea, London, [132] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
^ Anokhin, Vladilen Afanasʹevich (1986), Monetnoe delo Bospora, Kiev, Naukova dumka, p. 178, pl. 40.
^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2012), Handbook of Greek Coinages. 7. Coins of northern and Central Anatolia - Pontos, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, lykaonia, and Kappadokia (with Kolchis and the Kimmerian bosporos), Lancaster, lxxxii, 352 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
^ MacDonald 180