3629 - Panticapaeum (drachma Dionysus/stag) over Amisus (Hera/owl) (http://bosporan-kingdom.com/196-3025/23)
From SILVER
105 - 90 | ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN
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Location/history
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of Dionysos right, wearing laurel wreath. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN Stag running right, thyrsus over shoulder. |
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. 105 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 90 | 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: 2,5",5" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property. | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: Drachma | |
| DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 1515 mm <br />1.5 cm <br /> | |||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | http://bosporan-kingdom.com/196-3025/23.html, www.staraya-moneta.ru | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | O. D. Hoover1O. 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. 100 |
Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Amisus | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Pontus | Modern countryModern country: Turkey | 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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References
- ^ O. D. Hoover
