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Pantikapaion, bronze coin — Bearded head of a satyr right (CN type 23999)

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Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

195–185 BC

Issuing entity

Pantikapaion

Coin in bronze struck at Pantikapaion, dated 195–185 BC. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 23999 (period: Hellenistic Period; issuing authority type: city).

Obverse: Head of Poseidon, right, wearing taenia. Reverse: Bearded head of a satyr right, with long hair and blunt nose. Legend: ΠΑΝΤΙ. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 5.6 g (from 1 recorded specimen) and a diameter of 24 mm (from 1 recorded specimen). Published references cited by the corpus: Anochin, Antičnye monety Severnogo Pričernomor‘ja, Kiev 2011, nr. 1061; Anochin, Monetnoe delo Bospora, Kiev 1986, nr. 154.

Evidence at a glance

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Historical context

Pantikapaion, also known in Latin as Panticapaeum, was an ancient Greek city established by Milesians in the late 7th or early 6th century BC on a hill later called Mount Mithridat. It lay on the western side of the Cimmerian Bosporus on the eastern shore of Crimea, then known to Greeks as Taurica, where its ruins remain in the modern city of Kerch. The city acted as an issuing authority producing civic coinage during the Hellenistic Period.

Physical characteristics

Material
bronze
Recorded diameter
24 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
Recorded mean weight
5.6 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)

Technical characteristics

Mint
Pantikapaion
Authority type
City

Design

Obverse type
Head of Poseidon, right, wearing taenia.
Reverse type
Bearded head of a satyr right, with long hair and blunt nose.
Reverse legend
ΠΑΝΤΙ

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/23999
Type corpus identifier
CN type 23999

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