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Pantikapaion, bronze coin — Dionysus standing facing (CN type 24104)

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Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

90–83 BC

Issuing entity

Pantikapaion

Coin in bronze struck at Pantikapaion, dated 90–83 BC. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 24104 (period: Hellenistic Period; issuing authority type: city).

Obverse: Youthful male head (Menes?), right, wearing Phrygian cap. Reverse: Dionysus standing facing, head left, holding bunch of grapes in right hand over panther, advancing left, head right, resting left arm on thyrsus. Legend: ΠΑΝΤΙΚΑΠΑΙΤΩΝ. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 17.78 g (mean of 2 recorded specimens) and a diameter of 29–32.5 mm (from 3 recorded specimens). Published references cited by the corpus: Anochin, Antičnye monety Severnogo Pričernomor‘ja, Kiev 2011, nr. 1119; Anochin, Monetnoe delo Bospora, Kiev 1986, nr. 201; Price, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum 9 The British Museum 1. The Black Sea, 1993, nr. 936.

Evidence at a glance

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Physical characteristics

Material
bronze
Recorded diameter
29–32.5 mm (from 3 recorded specimens)
Recorded mean weight
17.78 g (mean of 2 recorded specimens)

Technical characteristics

Mint
Pantikapaion
Authority type
City

Design

Obverse type
Youthful male head (Menes?), right, wearing Phrygian cap.
Reverse type
Dionysus standing facing, head left, holding bunch of grapes in right hand over panther, advancing left, head right, resting left arm on thyrsus.
Reverse legend
ΠΑΝΤΙΚΑΠΑΙΤΩΝ

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/24104
Type corpus identifier
CN type 24104

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