Siglos

Features

Issuer	Amisos (Pontos)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	300 BC - 125 BC
Value	Siglos (1)
Currency	Persic siglos/drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	3.94 g
Diameter	15 mm
Thickness	2.5 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 227742
References	SNG BM Black Sea# 1110-1112 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. , HGC 7# 233 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. , Malloy# 9g var. Alex G. Malloy; 1970. The Coinage of Amisus. Self-published, New York City, New York, United States.

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Obverse

Turreted, draped bust of Hera-Tyche right.

Reverse

Owl with spread wings standing facing on shield, C-Ξ and ΠA monogram-Ρ in two lines across fields.

Edge

Plain

Mint

Amisus, Pontus, modern-day Samsun, Turkey

Comments

Issued by magistrate At- (unknown). Further references: Recueil Général 11 (13) var.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (300 BC - 125 BC)

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