v25_0041 - TAURIC CHERSONESE - PANTICAPEUM Bronze, (MB, Æ 25)
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 480.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 480.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 851.00 €
Starting price : 480.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 480.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 851.00 €
Type : Bronze, (MB, Æ 25)
Date: c. 350 AC
Mint name / Town : Panticapée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 15,74 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Portrait de haut relief et de toute beauté. Exemplaire parfaitement centré. Frappe un peu fruste au revers. Très jolie patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue de Pan à gauche, couronnée de feuilles de vigne.
Reverse
Reverse description : Légende ; au-dessus, une flèche, tournée à droite et un trident.
Reverse legend : PANTI.
Commentary
Poids lourd. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de la collection Stancomb (WSC. 540). Trou de centrage visible comme sur l’exemplaire Stancomb (WSC. 539).
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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