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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3221257, member: 44316&quot;]Panticapaeum (variously spelled) was a city on the northern Black Sea coast at the east end of Crimea (formerly Ukraine, recently annexed by Russia).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]838689[/ATTACH] </p><p>Normally when we first think of superb Greek numismatic art we think of Syracuse, but this remote city had some splendid coins, including gold staters. Its silver is rare (and often faked). On the other hand, its copper is available and beautiful. Be aware that the locals are masters at tooling and smoothing. Many, perhaps the majority, of coins offered from there are somewhat tooled. But, there are some coins that are not tooled. The city used the head of Pan on the obverse (some scholars argue that it is a satyr and not Pan, but I think it is Pan) with various reverses in sizes from 12 mm to 16 mm to 20 mm to 25 mm. Here is one of the large ones:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]838690[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>25 mm. 14.01 grams. Nearly black.</p><p>Bearded bust of Pan left, ivy wreath</p><p>Bow over arrow right over legend ΠANTI</p><p>Anokhin 110. Stancomb 539. MacDonald 59.</p><p>Struck c. 314-310 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>What a portrait!</p><p><br /></p><p>Show us a coin from the northern Black Sea region![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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