Here is a new webpage on coins of Panticapaeum: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Pan/Pan.html The famous "Bosporus strait" is the narrow waterway between Constantinople/Istanbul and the Black Sea. The other "Bosporus" is the "Cimmerian" Bosporus, the narrow waterway connecting the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov with the Crimean peninsula on its west side and Panticapaeum (also spelled "Panticipaion," now Kerch) as the city controlling the strait. (The webpage has maps.) Here is one artistic type 28 mm. (2 mm large than most of these) 12.73 grams. Bearded Pan/bow i.e. Bearded head of Pan left with ivy wreath Bow <arrow right> ΠANTI MacDonald 59 "c. 340-325" Anokhin 110 Here is the webpage again: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Pan/Pan.html Please visit it to see more about these coins. We have discussed coins of this city as recently as April, but if you have anything different to show, we'd love to see it.
Kind of like yours but with the Satyr obverse. Obv: Wreathed head of Satyr left Rev: Bow and arrow, ΠAN below 22mm, 6.9gms SNG Black Sea 561
Different type Head of Pan left Head and neck of bull left TT A N in field 4.29 gr, 18 mm Ref : Sear #1699 v, MacDonald 67, SNG BM Black Sea 890-3, SNG Cop. 32 Q
This is a very good page. About 2/3 of the way down is the comment: "A very similar type, MacDonald 115, has the same design with the star and bowcase engraved into the dies! This coin is countermarked. Notice the mane of the lion is a bit flattened by the force of the countermark on the other side. This coin is one with the countermark engraved into the dies. Mine is a poor specimen but was what came my way when I first 'discovered' the situation from a listing by Frank Robinson.
Greece (Thrace, Pantakapaion): bronze Æ21, ca. 310-303 BC Obverse: Bearded head of satyr (or the god Pan) right. Reverse: Forepart of griffin left, sturgeon below. Issuer: Pantakapaion (Panticapaeum) in Thrace. Specifications: Bronze, 21.34 mm., 7.68 g. Grade: NGC Ch VF; Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5. Cert. #5770260-001. Purchased raw. Reference: Anokhin 111; SNG BM Black Sea 869-871; MacDonald 69.* Provenance: Ex-Lodge Antiquities, UK, via VCoins store, 9 March 2019.* Notes: Pantikápaion was a Greek city on the eastern side of Crimea. Its ruins are located in the modern Ukrainian city of Kerch, which was annexed by Russia in 2014. Comments: Pan sort of looks like a werewolf here, doesn't he?
An informative page with very nice specimens @Valentinian . This year I bought three coins from this Greek city, are common types,.... I still searching for a nice griffin type.
My two: Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion, AE 19 mm., ca. 320-310 BCE, minted under Perisad I, 345-310 BC. Obv. Bearded head of satyr, right / Rev. Forepart of griffin left; below, sturgeon left; Π-A-N [PAN] around. Anokhin (2011) 1023 [Anokhin, V.A., Античные Монеты Северного Причерноморья (Ancient Coins of the Northern Black Sea Coast) (Kiev. 2011) (see https://bosporan-kingdom.com/111-3141/)]; Seaby 1700 [Sear, David, Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. 1: Europe (Seaby 1979) at p. 169]; BMC 3 Thrace 20 [R.S. Poole, ed. A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 3, The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, etc. (London, 1877) at p. 7]; SNG BM Black Sea 869-870 [Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea (London, 1993); available online at http://www.sylloge-nummorum-graecorum.org; see SNGuk_0901_0869 and SNGuk_0901_0870]. 20 mm., 7.87 g., 12 h. Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion, AE 20 mm., ca. 310-303 BCE, minted under Eumelos (Spartocid ruler of Bosporan Kingdom, son of Perisad I). Obv. Beardless head of young satyr (Pan) left, wearing ivy wreath / Rev. Lion head left; sturgeon below left; Π-A-N [PAN] around. Seaby 1701 [Sear, David, Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. 1: Europe (Seaby 1979) at p. 169]; BMC 3 Thrace 21-22 [R.S. Poole, ed. A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 3, The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, etc. (London, 1877) at p. 8]; HGC 7, 114 [Hoover, Oliver D., Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Anatolia, Pontos, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lykaonia, and Kappadokia (with Kolchis and the Kimmerian Bosporos), 5th to 1st Centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 7 (Lancaster, PA, 2012). 20 mm., 6.43 g. Purchased from Kirk Davis, Catalogue # 77, Spring 2021, Lot 6.
