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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7516351, member: 110350"]Another coin from Pantikapaion, to pair with my bearded satyr/griffin posted above. (It's the very next catalog number in all four of the references I cite, although I don't see nice examples quite as often.) I bought it mostly for the lion & sturgeon on the reverse, although the obverse is interesting as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>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, <i>Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. 1: Europe</i> (Seaby 1979) at p. 169]; BMC 3 Thrace 21-22 [R.S. Poole, ed. <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 3, The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, etc. </i>(London, 1877) at p. 8]; HGC 7, 114 [Hoover, Oliver D., <i>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</i>, <i>Volume 7</i> (Lancaster, PA, 2012); MacDonald 70 [MacDonald, David, <i>An Introduction to the History and Coinage of the Kingdom of the Bosporus. Classical Numismatic Studies 5</i> (Lancaster, 2005)]. 20 mm., 6.43 g. <i>Purchased from Kirk Davis, Catalogue # 77, Spring 2021, Lot 6.</i></p><p><br /></p><p> [ATTACH=full]1298484[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7516351, member: 110350"]Another coin from Pantikapaion, to pair with my bearded satyr/griffin posted above. (It's the very next catalog number in all four of the references I cite, although I don't see nice examples quite as often.) I bought it mostly for the lion & sturgeon on the reverse, although the obverse is interesting as well. 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, [I]Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. 1: Europe[/I] (Seaby 1979) at p. 169]; BMC 3 Thrace 21-22 [R.S. Poole, ed. [I]A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 3, The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, etc. [/I](London, 1877) at p. 8]; HGC 7, 114 [Hoover, Oliver D., [I]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[/I], [I]Volume 7[/I] (Lancaster, PA, 2012); MacDonald 70 [MacDonald, David, [I]An Introduction to the History and Coinage of the Kingdom of the Bosporus. Classical Numismatic Studies 5[/I] (Lancaster, 2005)]. 20 mm., 6.43 g. [I]Purchased from Kirk Davis, Catalogue # 77, Spring 2021, Lot 6.[/I] [ATTACH=full]1298484[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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