Siglos - Aris.. Peiraeeus

Features

Issuer	Amisos (Pontos)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	435 BC - 370 BC
Value	Siglos (1)
Currency	Persic siglos/drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	5.55 g
Diameter	20 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 431086
References	SNG BM Black Sea# 1056 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. , SNG von Aulock# 6713 Gebr. Mann (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Sammlung von Aulock. Gebr. Mann, Berlin, Germany (17 volumes). , HGC 7# 229 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

Head of Hera left, wearing stephane, earring, and necklace.

Reverse

Owl standing facing on shield, with wings spread; grain ear to outer left, sword in sheath to outer right, AP–IΣ and H–Γ across inner field, ΠEIPA in exergue.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
AP IΣ
H Γ
ΠEIPA

Mint

Peiraeeus, Pontus, modern-day Samsun, Turkey

Comments

Malloy 1t; RG 1.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (435 BC - 370 BC)

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