Didrachm

Features

Issuer	Phasis (Kolchis)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	480 BC - 450 BC
Value	Didrachm (2)
Currency	Drachm
Composition	Srebro
Weight	10.78 g
Diameter	21 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana, Incuse
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 555775
References	SNG BM Black Sea# 1010 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. , BostonMFA# 1352 Agnes Baldwin Brett; 1955. Catalogue of Greek Coins. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. , GCV# 3627 David R. Sear. Greek Coins and Their Values. B.A. Seaby, London, United Kingdom (2 volumes). , Hind# 2 John F. Hind; 2005. “The Types on the Phasian Silver Coins of the Fifth-Fourth Centuries BC (The 'Kolkhidki' of Western Georgia)”, The Numismatic Chronicle, Volume 165, pages 1-14. , Regling Kunstwerk# 280 Kurt Regling; 1924. Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk = The ancient coin as a work of art. Berlin, Germany. , Kraay&Hirm# 692 Colin Mackennal Kraay, Max Hirmer; 1966. Greek Coins. Thames & Hudson, London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

(en) Lion with open jaws, head turned back, to left or right.

Reverse

(en) Female character (or Minotaur?) with kneeling bull's head in an incuse rectangle.

Mint

Phasis, modern-day Poti, Georgia

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (480 BC - 450 BC)

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