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Auction XVIII 29 Sep 2019
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Cimmerian Bosporos, Gorgippia as Sindikos Limen (or the Sindoi) AR Hemidrachm. Circa 400 BC. Head of young Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Head of horse to right, ΣΙΝΔΩΝ over sunburst above; all within shallow incuse square. Frolova, Kimmerischen Bosporos, Sinder Type I, 1; MacDonald 78; HGC 7, 1 (this coin). 2.46g, 16mm, 3h.
Very Fine. Very Rare.
From the William Stancomb Collection;
This coin published in O.D. Hoover, The Handbook of Greek Coinage, Volume 7 (Lancaster PA, 2012);
Ex La Gallerie Numismatique, Auction 9, 14 January 2007, lot 108.
Hansen & Nielsen (An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis, 2004) relate that Sindike/Sindikos Limen (Sindikos Harbour) "was established by Greeks in the 6th century as a trading centre in the territory of the indigenous population (the Sindoi)". The location of Sindikos Limen remains a matter of scholarly debate; Strabo's passage (11.2.10) about the location of Gorgippia provides grounds for different interpretations; "some scholars take Strabo's information to mean that Gorgippia was the capital of the Sindoi, and the most widespread opinion is that Sindike/Sindikos Limen/Gorgippia are all the same place, but with different names in use at different times. It appears likely that Sindikos Limen was renamed Gorgippia some time in the 4th century when the territory of the Dindoi was incorporated into the Bosporan Kingdom by Leukon I (389/8-349/8), being so named after a member of the Bosporan Spartokid dynasty, Gorgippos, who ruled together with his brother Leukon I, and who was probably installed as governor of the city - this interpretation is supported by the 'royal' tiles of the 4th century, which carry the stamp: ΓΟΡ-ΓΙΠ-ΠOY".
Very Fine. Very Rare.
From the William Stancomb Collection;
This coin published in O.D. Hoover, The Handbook of Greek Coinage, Volume 7 (Lancaster PA, 2012);
Ex La Gallerie Numismatique, Auction 9, 14 January 2007, lot 108.
Hansen & Nielsen (An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis, 2004) relate that Sindike/Sindikos Limen (Sindikos Harbour) "was established by Greeks in the 6th century as a trading centre in the territory of the indigenous population (the Sindoi)". The location of Sindikos Limen remains a matter of scholarly debate; Strabo's passage (11.2.10) about the location of Gorgippia provides grounds for different interpretations; "some scholars take Strabo's information to mean that Gorgippia was the capital of the Sindoi, and the most widespread opinion is that Sindike/Sindikos Limen/Gorgippia are all the same place, but with different names in use at different times. It appears likely that Sindikos Limen was renamed Gorgippia some time in the 4th century when the territory of the Dindoi was incorporated into the Bosporan Kingdom by Leukon I (389/8-349/8), being so named after a member of the Bosporan Spartokid dynasty, Gorgippos, who ruled together with his brother Leukon I, and who was probably installed as governor of the city - this interpretation is supported by the 'royal' tiles of the 4th century, which carry the stamp: ΓΟΡ-ΓΙΠ-ΠOY".