ID help, please, for Black Sea Issue...?

Mayadigger

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ID help, please, for Black Sea Issue...?

« on: May 21, 2006, 08:24:25 pm »

Ave!

I just really love to find a new coin that I can't ID, don't you? Below is a new one for me... Black Sea Panti issue, perhaps? The star seems right for this issue, but what do I know...

Obv/ Lion(?) charging r., star above
Rx/ BAE monogram.

I'll leave the ID for this one for our resident experts!

Best,

Kevin

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bpmurphy

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Re: ID help, please, for Black Sea Issue...?

« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2006, 09:25:01 pm »

Kevin,

You have a coin of Polemo I. Circa 15/14-8/7 BC.

The monogram on the reverse is found on a gold stater and numerous AE issues. The generally accepted expansion of the monogram is BASILEWS POLEMO.

MacDonald 230; Anohkin 257

Barry Murphy

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Mayadigger

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Re: ID help, please, for Black Sea Issue...?

« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2006, 10:42:51 pm »

Ave Barry!

Excellent, my friend! Is this a Panti issue, or what? Can you be just a bit more specific?

Best,

K

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AnemicOak

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Re: ID help, please, for Black Sea Issue...?

« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2006, 11:36:13 pm »

Quote from: Mayadigger on May 21, 2006, 10:42:51 pm

Is this a Panti issue, or what? Can you be just a bit more specific?

It's from the Kingdom of the Bosporus. Probably minted in Panticapaeum, but possibly one of the other mints/cities in the Kingdom. MacDonald doesn't really say if they were minted only in Panticapaeum or also Phanagoria, Gorgippia, etc.

Nice coin.

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Re: ID help, please, for Black Sea Issue...?

« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2006, 04:23:26 pm »

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rjohara

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Re: ID help, please, for Black Sea Issue...?

« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2006, 03:05:41 am »

That's a lovely coin. The lion/star must be a stylistic derivative of the lion/star designs of Miletus, no? The standard Milesian reverse for at least 400 years is a standing lion with head turned back, looking at a star/sun. (The difference here is that the lion is running and facing forward.) Panticapaeum was founded as a Milesian colony around 600BC.

Does anyone happen to know of other lion/star coins?

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