SO 1480 - Cos over Sinope
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88 BCE - 50 BCE | ΚΩΙΩΝ
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Overstriking coin
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Location/history
| Museum collectionMuseum collection: | Fethiye, Archaeological Museum | |
Overstriking coin
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of Asklepius right, wearing laurel wreath. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ΚΩΙΩΝ (Greek) Staff entwined by snake and a magistrate's name ending in AOΣ downwards |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: | Cos | Ancient regionAncient region. | Caria | Modern countryModern country: Greece | 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: |
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 88 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 50 BCE | 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: 5.35.3 g <br />5,300 mg <br /> | ||
References
| Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | Ashton 2002, pl. 6, n°1 | Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: | Ingvaldsen 20021Ingvaldsen 2002, Issue XXI, n°1-140, Ashton 20022Ashton 2002, pl. 6, n°1, HGC 63HGC 6, n°1332 |
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Overstruck type
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: | Head of Zeus right. | ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: | ΣΙΝ (Greek) Eagle standing half left on a thunderbolt with open wings and reverted head. To left a monogram and the ethnic below. |
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ: | Sinope | Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ | Paphlagonia | 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. 85 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 65 BCE | Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
References
| Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ᵖ: | BMC Crete4BMC Crete, 178-91 and 179-81, SNG Stancomb5SNG Stancomb, 801-3, Ashton 20022Ashton 2002, pl. 6, n°1 | ||
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Additional data
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: | Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: | ||
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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.
- a b 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.
- ^ Wroth, Warwick William (1886), A Catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. vol. X : Crete and the Aegean Islands, London, The Trustees, p. 152, pl. XXIX
- ^ Sylloge nummorum graecorum. Great Britain. Volume 11, The William Stancomb Collection of coins of the Black Sea Region, Oxford, 2000, liii p. of plates, map ; 31 cm.
