MK-B | Bosporos: Asandros 19/18 v. Chr.

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Bosporos: Asandros 19/18 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Münzkabinett, Vault
Obverse	Kopf des Asandros mit Diadem nach r.
Reverse	BAΣIΛEΩΣ - AΣANΔPOY. Nike mit Kranz in der erhobenen r. Hand und einem Palmzweig in der gesenkten l. Hand auf einem Schiffsbug (prora) nach l. Im l. F. innen die Jahresangabe ΘΚ (= 29).
Sitter	Asandros
Class/status	Ancient Ruler's issue
Authority	Asandros
Date	19/18 v. Chr. Roman Imperiod period
Denomination	Stater Stater Literally the resp. one unit. Hence designating the main unit within a certain currency of a Greek city or realm. The silver tetradrachm of Athens or the tridrachm of Corinth hence are also the stater within each denominational system. The main meaning though, especially in modern scholarship, is that of a denomination in gold of about 8.6 grams in the Attic standard.
	Gold ; 7,97 g; 20 mm; 12 h
Production	struck
Secondary treatments	pecked
Region	Bosporos
Country	Ukraine
Publications	N. Frolova - S. Ireland, The Coinage of the Bosporan Kingdom. From the First Century BC to the Middle of the First Century AD (2002) 39 Nr. 60 Taf. 20,4 (dieses Stück); RPC I Nr. 1863,2 (dieses Stück); D. MacDonald, An Introduction to the History of the Kingdom of the Bosporus (2005) 51 Nr. 216 (19/18 v. Chr.); O. Hoover, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series VII (2012) 51 Nr. 201.
Web Portals	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1863/2
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Roman Imperial period
Accession	1906 Löbbecke
previous Owner	Arthur Löbbecke - 1906
Object number	18277985
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