bgr_236829 - TAURIC CHERSONESE - PANTICAPEUM Demi-unité
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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 60.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 60.00 €
Type : Demi-unité
Date: c. 300-200 AC
Mint name / Town : Panticapée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,56 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais et irrégulier, un peu court sur les sujets. Beau portrait inhabituel de Pan. Décentré au revers. Jolie patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe de Pan à gauche, couronnée de feuilles de vigne.
Reverse
Reverse description : au-dessus, une flèche à droite surmontée d’un arc.
Reverse legend : PAN
Commentary
Ce type de poids léger appartient aux émissions de poids réduit.
This type of light weight belongs to light weight emissions
This type of light weight belongs to light weight emissions
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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