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ID:
77000200
[UNVERIFIED]
Type:
Greek
Region:
BOSPOROS
City:
Panticapaeum
Metal:
Silver
Denomination:
Tetradrachm
Struck / Cast:
struck
Date Struck:
BC Circa 355-340
Weight:
15.79 g
Die Axis:
11 h
Obverse Description:
Laureate head of Apollo left
Reverse Legend:
ΠΑΝΤΙ
Reverse Description:
Horse grazing left
Primary Reference:
MacDonald 49
Reference2:
Anokhin 117
Reference3:
SNG BM Black Sea -
Photograph Credit:
Classical Numismatic Group
Source:
http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=114623
Grade:
Near EF, toned, minor scuff on obverse
Notes:
Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 200 Good metal for issue. Pantikapaion was founded by Greek colonists from Miletos in the late seventhth century BC. Situated on the west side of the Cimmerian Bosporos, in what is now the Crimea, it achieved great prosperity through its exploitation of the abundant fisheries of the Straits and the export of wheat from the Crimea. This wealth is attested by its splendid gold coinage which commenced in the mid-4th century BC and by the magnificently furnished rock tombs of its principal citizens in the same period. Later, it was to become a regional capital of the kingdom of Mithradates VI of Pontos (120-63 BC) and later still the seat of the kings of Bosporos (first century BC - fourth century AD). The coinage of Pantikapaion seems to have commenced with silver issues in the latter part of the fifth century BC, but it is for its beautiful gold staters that the mint is chiefly noted. They depict the head of the god Pan (a pun on the name of the city) and on the reverse the griffin which Herodotos describes as being the guardian of the remote sources of gold.
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