Uncertain mint, Sariakos, bronze coin — Star with eight rays (CN type 12909)
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
180–168/167 BC
Issuing entity
Scythian Kingdom in DobrujaCoin in bronze under Sariakos, dated 180–168/167 BC. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 12909 (period: Hellenistic Period; issuing authority type: ruler).
Obverse: Crested helmet with cheek-guard, right. Reverse: Star with eight rays. Legend: ΒΑΣΙ ΣΑΡΙ. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 2.1 g (mean of 3 recorded specimens) and a diameter of 13–14 mm (from 2 recorded specimens). Published references cited by the corpus: Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017, p. 305, nr. 2043; o. A., Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Greece 7. The KIKPE Collection of Bronze Coins, Volume I, 2012, nr. 386, pl. 38; Stancomb, The William Stancomb collection of coins of the Black Sea region, 2000, nr. 328.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 4
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 3
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded diameter
- 13–14 mm (from 2 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 2.1 g (mean of 3 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Authority type
- Ruler
- Issuing authority
- Sariakos
Design
- Obverse type
- Crested helmet with cheek-guard, right.
- Reverse type
- Star with eight rays.
- Reverse legend
- ΒΑΣΙ ΣΑΡΙ
Identification
- Period
- Hellenistic Period
- How to identify
- Check the mint name or ethnic, the reverse type and the legend together, then compare weight and module; types from the same mint often differ only in legend arrangement, magistrate names or control marks.
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/12909
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 12909
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Research required
- Issue or mint date
- Recorded
- Material
- Recorded
- Weight
- Recorded
- Mint or printer
- Research required
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Recorded
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- Recorded
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Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 305, nr. 2043
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 386, pl. 38
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 328
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