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bgr_966793 - TAURIC CHERSONESE - PANTICAPEUM Obole
90.00 €(Approx. 102.60$ | 76.50£)
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Type : Obole
Date: c. 470-460 AC.
Mint name / Town : Panticapée, Chersonèse Taurique
Metal : silver
Diameter : 9 mm
Weight : 0,53 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, centré. Usure régulière. Joli masque de lion. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Masque de lion vu de face.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Carré creux quadripartite.
Historical background
TAURIC CHERSONESE - PANTICAPEUM
(5th - 4th 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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