Æ18
Features
| Issuer |
Uncertain Pontian city
(Pontos)  |
|---|---|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Years | 130 BC - 100 BC |
| Currency | Drachm |
| Composition | Bronze |
| Weight | 6.3 g |
| Diameter | 18 mm |
| Shape | Round (irregular) |
| Technique | Hammered |
| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 566064 |
| References | SNG BM Black Sea# 982 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. , Lindgren III# 152 Henry Clay Lindgren; 1993. Ancient Greek Bronze Coins from the Lindgren Collection / Volume III. Chrysopylon Publications, Quarryville, Pennsylvania, United States. 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
Rose bud with monogram in left field.
Reverse
Star of eight rays (or comet) with crescent at the end of one ray.
Mint
Amisus, Pontus, modern-day Samsun, TurkeyComments
Suspected to have been made for Amisos, and is unconfirmed as a Mithradates VI issue.
Further speculation that the reverse design which is shared on a few different types is in fact a comet instead of a star.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| ND (130 BC - 100 BC) | |||||||||||||||
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