Æ Obol - Mithridates VI Panticapaeum
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Features
| Issuer | Bosporan Kingdom |
|---|---|
| Król |
Mithridates VI (Μιθριδάτης Εὐπάτωρ) (120 BC - 63 BC)
|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Years | 90 BC - 79 BC |
| Value | Obol (⅙) |
| Currency | Drachm |
| Composition | Brąz |
| Weight | 19.7 g |
| Diameter | 31 mm |
| Shape | Okrągły (nieregularny) |
| Technique | Młotkowana |
| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 484757 |
| References | Anokhin# 1119 Vladlen Opanasovych Anokhin; 2011. Античные монеты Северного Причерноморья = Antique coins of the Northern Black Sea coastal region. Stilos, Kyiv, Ukraine. David J. MacDonald; 2005. An introduction to the history and coinage of the Kingdom of the Bosporus: including the coinage of Panticapaeum (with Apollonia and Myrmecium), Phanagoria, Gorgippia, Sindicus Limen or the Sindoi, Nymphaeum, Theodosia and the kings of the Cimmerian Bosporus. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.Martin Jessop Price; 1993. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain) / Volume 9.1. The British Museum. Part 1: The Black Sea. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. , BMC Greek# 34 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). Vladlen Opanasovych Anokhin; 1986. Монетное дело Боспора = Coinage of Bosporos. Наукова думка, Kyiv, Ukraine. Igor Valentinovich Shonov; 2019. Монетная чеканка правителей Боспора VI - I вв. до н. э. = Coinage of the rulers of Bosporus in the VI - I centuries BC. Simferopol, Ukraine. Oliver D. Hoover; 2012. Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Anatolia / Volume 7: Pontos, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lykaonia, and Kappadokia (with Kolchis and the Kimmerian Bosporos): Fifth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom. |
Obverse
(en) Head of Mên right, wearing a laureate Phrygian cap decorated with stars, star in crescent above forehead.
Reverse
(en) Dionysos standing left, holding grape bunch and thyrsos; to lower left, panther seated left, raising forepaw; monogram to right.
Script: grecki
Lettering: ΠΑΝΤΙΚΑΠΑΙΤΩΝ
Mint
Panticapaeum, Tauric Chersonesus, modern-day Kerch, UkraineComments
(en)
Dating 90 - 79 BC according to MacDonald (2005); 90 - 83 BC according to Anokhin (2011); 83 - 80 BC according to Shonov (2019).
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| ND (90 BC - 79 BC) | 
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$ 79 | $ 210 | ||||||||||||
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