3382 - Panticapaeum (drachma Dionysus/stag) over Amisus (Hera/owl) (Berlin, MK)
From SILVER
105 - 90 | ΠANTIKAΠAITΩN
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Location/history
Museum collectionMuseum collection: | Berlin, Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen. | Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ: | Cahn 60 (02/07/1928), no. 306. |
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 ![]() |
Physical description
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: | WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 3.353.35 g <br />3,350 mg <br /> | DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: Drachma | |
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: | 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