bgr_1116185 - TAURIC CHERSONESE - PANTICAPEUM Diobole
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Type : Diobole
Date: c. 200-150 AC
Mint name / Town : Panticapée, Chersonèse Taurique
Metal : silver
Diameter : 11,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,29 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Usure régulière. Joli portrait d’Apollon. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Thymiaterion.
Reverse legend : PA
Reverse translation : (Panticapée).
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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