bgr_549162 - TAURIC CHERSONESE - PANTICAPEUM Unité
Not available.
Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 390.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 390.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 310 -304/303 AC.
Mint name / Town : Panticapée, Chersonèse Taurique
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,52 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Joli droit. Revers de style fin. Belle patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue de Silène (Satyre) à droite, couronnée de feuilles de vigne.
Reverse
Reverse description : Protomé de griffon à gauche ; au-dessous, un esturgeon à gauche.
Reverse legend : P/A/N
Commentary
Exemplaire de très beau style.
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).
Report a mistake
Print the page
Share my selection
Ask a question
Consign / sellRelated articles
Full data
Your Recently Viewed Items
JUSTIN II and SOPHIA Follis VF/XF
80.00 €
BÂTIMENTS DU ROI Louis XIV VG
10.00 €
Essai du 1/2 franc Semeuse 1965 Paris F.198/2 MS66 PCGS
180.00 €
SECOND EMPIRE Médaille, Récompense choléra AU/AU
90.00 €
MACEDONIA - KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS Tétradrachme VF
150.00 €
cgbfr.com numismatists
