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CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS KINGDOM, MakharesCIMMERIAN BOSPOROS KINGDOM, Uncertain mint. Makhares. Governor of the Bosporos, circa 79-65 BC. Æ 27. Obv.: Wreathed head of young Dionysos right Rev.: Bowcase; monogram to left. MacDonald 180/3; SNG BM Black Sea 946-9 var. (monogram); HGC 7, 110 (Pantikapaion).
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CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS, PANTIKAPAION, 340-325 BCAE, 25mm, 14.84g, 8h
O - Wreathed and bearded head of satyr left
R - Bow and arrow.
MacDonald 59; HGC 7, 106.robertpe
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Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion. (Circa 340-325 BC.)Æ26.5 (14.67g )
Obverse: Wreathed head of Pan left
Reverse: Bow and arrow.
Anokhin 1022; MacDonald 59; HGC 7, 106.Nathan P
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Cimmerian Bosporos. Panticapaeum. (Circa 325-310 BC)AE17 (4.07 gm)
Obverse: Head of bearded satyr left
Reverse: Î -A-N, head of bull left.
MacDonald 67. Anokhin 132.
Panticapaeum (Ancient Greek: Παντικάπαιον, translit. Pantikápaion, Russian: Пантикапей, translit. Pantikapei) was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of Crimea, which the Greeks called Taurica. The city was built on Mount Mithridat, a hill on the western side of the Cimmerian Bosporus. It was founded by Milesians in the late 7th or early 6th century BC.
This area eventually came to be ruled by the Spartocids, a Hellenized Thracian dynasty that ruled the Hellenistic Kingdom of Bosporus between the years 438–108 BC. They had usurped the former dynasty, the Archaeanactids, a Greek dynasty of the Bosporan Kingdom who were tyrants of Panticapaeum from 480 - 438 BC that were usurped from the Bosporan throne by Spartokos I in 438 BC, whom the dynasty is named after.
Spartokos I is often thought to have been a Thracian mercenary who was hired by the Archaeanactids, and that he usurped the Archaeanactids becoming "king" of the Bosporan Kingdom, then only a few cities, such as Panticapaeum. Spartokos was succeeded by his son, Satyros I, who would go on to conquer many cities around Panticapaeum such as Nymphaeum and Kimmerikon. Satyros's son, Leukon I, would go to conquer and expand the kingdom beyond boundaries his father ever thought of.
Ultimately, the Bosporan Kingdom entered into a decline due to numerous attacks from nomadic Scythian tribes in the subsequent centuries leading up to its fall.Nathan P
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Pantikapaion, Tauric Chersonesos, Thrace, 310 - 304 BC.AE 20, McDonald 70, SNG Pushkin 886, Sear GCV I 1701, Lindgren II 677, , weight 5.1 g, max. diameter 19.84 mm, Pantikapaion mint, c. 310 - 304 BC; Obv. head of youthful satyr left, wreathed in ivy; Rev. Π Α Ν in legend, head of roaring lion left, sturgeon fish left below. Chestnut brown patina.
Background info; Pantikapaion (Panticapaeum) is present-day Kerch, an important Greek city and port in Taurica (Tauric Chersonese), situated on a hill (Mt. Mithridates) on the western side of the Cimmerian Bosporus (Kerch Strait), between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. It was founded by Milesians in the late 7th or early 6th century B.C. Originally called Apollonia. Wikipedia.Steve E
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Pantikapaion, Tauric Chersonesos, Thrace, 310 - 304 BC. AE 20, McDonald 69, SNG Pushkin 818, Sear GCV I 1700, weight 7.29 g, max. diameter 20.8 mm, Pantikapaion mint, c. 310 - 304 BC; Obv. bearded head of satyr right; Rev. Π Α Ν in legend, forepart of griffin left, sturgeon fish left below. Shiny green patina with a few corrosion pits. A sharp strike with little wear!
Background info; Pantikapaion (Panticapaeum) is present-day Kerch, an important Greek city and port in Taurica (Tauric Chersonese), situated on a hill (Mt. Mithridates) on the western side of the Cimmerian Bosporus (Kerch Strait), between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. It was founded by Milesians in the late 7th or early 6th century B.C. Originally called Apollonia. Wikipedia.
Steve E
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