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bgr_950794 - TAURIC CHERSONESE - PANTICAPEUM Unité

TAURIC CHERSONESE - PANTICAPEUM Unité XF
200.00 €(Approx. 218.00$ | 168.00£)
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 280-250 AC.
Mint name / Town : Panticapé, Chersonèse Taurique
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 5,16 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire centré. Joli revers. Usure régulière. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue de Silène (Satyre) à gauche, les cheveux longs flottant en arrière, la tempe ornée d’un petit animal (dauphin ?), couronnée de feuilles de vigne.

Reverse


Reverse description : Tête et cou de taureau à gauche.
Reverse legend : P/A/N.
Reverse translation : (Panticapée).

Commentary


Le satyre Silène était le compagnon de beuverie de Dionysos (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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