bgr_262432 - TAURIC CHERSONESE - PANTICAPEUM Unité
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Price : 110.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 110.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 100-80 AC.
Mint name / Town : Panticapée, Chersonèse Taurique
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18,00 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,10 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais bien centré des deux côtés. Portrait particulier d’Apollon avec une strie sur le visage. Très joli revers avec l’ethnique complet. Patine marron foncé
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de la maison Platt (1995) et de la collection du Dr.Charles Haas
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à droite, les cheveux longs tombant sur la nuque.
Reverse
Reverse description : Arc et carquois.
Reverse legend : PANTIKA/PAITWN.
Reverse translation : (de Panticapée).
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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