3508 - Apollonia Pontica (drachma anchor/Gorgon) over uncertain type (Pecunem, 11, Dec. 2013, 42)

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SILVER IDUnique ID of the page : 3508


410 - 323

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Location/history

Overstriking coin

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: Anchor, A and crayfish. In field, MEΓHNO.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: Apollonia Pontica Ancient regionAncient region. Thrace 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. 410 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 323 periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: Tetradrachm
StandardStandard.: Attic
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: Topalov 20071Topalov 2007, no. 49-50, O. D. Hoover2O. D. Hoover, Handbook of Coins of Macedon and Its Neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike, Sixth to First Centuries BC - Handbook of Greek Coinage Series 3, Lancaster-London, 2017, no. 1312

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. : Ancient regionAncient region.  Modern countryModern country: AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. :
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 :
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:

References

  1. ^  Topalov, Stavri (2007), Apollonia Pontica : contribution to the study of the coin minting of the city 6th-1st c. B.C., Sofia, Nasko-1701, 2 v., p. 843.
  2. ^ O. D. Hoover