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bgr_524627 - TAURIC CHERSONESE - PANTICAPEUM Drachme

TAURIC CHERSONESE - PANTICAPEUM Drachme AU
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Price : 2 400.00 €
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 340-325 AC.
Mint name / Town : Panticapée
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,45 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Tête de Silène tout à fait spectaculaire, de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Revers finement détaillé. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
HGCS. 7/87  - BMC.6  - GC.1695 (450£) - WSC.547
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection B. Odaert

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue de Pan de face; de trois quarts à gauche, les cheveux flottants au vent.

Reverse


Reverse description : Tête de taureau à gauche.
Reverse legend : P/A/N.

Commentary


Le satyre Silène était le compagnon de beuverie de Dionysos (Bacchus).

Historical background


TAURIC CHERSONESE - PANTICAPEUM

(4th-1st century BC)

Founded in the 6th century BC, Panticapée (Kertch) was a colony of Miletus, located west of the Cimmerian Bosphorus. The head of the satyr Pan adorns the rights and constitutes a play on words with the name of the city according to the legend. In fact, it is Silene. Before being called Panticapée, the city would have borne the name of Apollonia. The coinage sometimes presents homotypes with the coinage of Apollonia Pontica. The region of Panticapée was famous for its immense reserves of gold immortalized by Herodotus (III, 116).

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