bgr_504537 - TAURIC CHERSONESE - PANTICAPEUM Demi-unité
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Price : 250.00 €
Type : Demi-unité
Date: c. 300-200 AC
Mint name / Town : Panticapée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,48 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré. Usure plus marquée au droit. Joli revers bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue de Pan à gauche, les cheveux flottants au vent.
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête de taureau à gauche ; un esturgeon au-dessous.
Reverse legend : P/A/N
Commentary
Le satyre Silène était le compagnon de beuverie de Dionysos (Bacchus).
The satyr Silenus was the drinking companion of Dionysus (Bacchus)
The satyr Silenus was the drinking companion of Dionysus (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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