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Pantikapaion, bronze coin — Forepart of griffin (CN type 21739)

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Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

c. 320–310 BC

Issuing entity

Pantikapaion

Coin in bronze struck at Pantikapaion, dated c. 320–310 BC. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 21739 (period: Hellenistic Period; issuing authority type: city).

Obverse: Bearded head of a satyr right, with long hair and blunt nose. Reverse: Forepart of griffin, left, right forepaw raised; below, starry sturgeon. Legend: ΠΑΝ. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 7.03 g (mean of 11 recorded specimens) and a diameter of 18.8–22 mm (from 11 recorded specimens). Published references cited by the corpus: Anochin, Monetnoe delo Bospora, Kiev 1986, nr. 111; Price, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum 9 The British Museum 1. The Black Sea, 1993, nr. 869-871; Anochin, Antičnye monety Severnogo Pričernomor‘ja, Kiev 2011, nr. 1023; Stancomb, The William Stancomb collection of coins of the Black Sea region, 2000, nr. 541-542.

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Physical characteristics

Material
bronze
Recorded diameter
18.8–22 mm (from 11 recorded specimens)
Recorded mean weight
7.03 g (mean of 11 recorded specimens)

Technical characteristics

Mint
Pantikapaion
Authority type
City

Design

Obverse type
Bearded head of a satyr right, with long hair and blunt nose.
Reverse type
Forepart of griffin, left, right forepaw raised; below, starry sturgeon.
Reverse legend
ΠΑΝ

Identification

Period
Hellenistic Period
How to identify
Check the mint name or ethnic, the reverse type and the legend together, then compare weight and module; types from the same mint often differ only in legend arrangement, magistrate names or control marks.
Type corpus record
https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/21739
Type corpus identifier
CN type 21739

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