bgr_970623 - TAURIC CHERSONESE - PANTICAPEUM demi-unité
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Type : demi-unité
Date: c. 310 -304/303 AC.
Mint name / Town : Panticapée, Chersonèse Taurique
Metal : copper
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,84 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire centré. Jolie tête de Silène ainsi qu’un très beau Pégase au revers. Patine marron
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Silène (Satyre) à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Protomé de Pégase à droite.
Reverse legend : P/A/N
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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