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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 5254043, member: 110350&quot;]This may strike people as an unimportant question -- which I freely admit it is, because I have plenty of other catalog references for this coin -- but I can&#039;t help being curious about conflicting&nbsp; numbers I&#039;ve seen for one reference for a Pantikapaion that arrived in the mail today. (I guess the name of the place has become synonymous with the name of the coin, but whatever one calls it, I&#039;ve wanted one of these for some time.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion, AE 19 mm., ca. 310-304/303 BCE. Obv. Bearded head of satyr, right / Rev. Forepart of griffin left; below, sturgeon left; Π-A-N [PAN] around. <b>Anokhin 111 (or 1023)</b> [Anokhin, V.A., <i>Monetnoye delo Bospora (The Coinage of the Bosporus</i> (Kiev, 1986)]; <b>Seaby 1700</b> [Sear, David, <i>Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. 1: Europe</i> (Seaby 1979) at p. 169]; <b>BMC 3 Thrace 20</b> [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. 7]; <b>HGC 7, 113</b> [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); <b>MacDonald 69</b> [MacDonald, David, <i>An Introduction to the History and Coinage of the Kingdom of the Bosporus. Classical Numismatic Studies 5</i> (Lancaster, 2005)]; <b>SNG BM Black Sea 869-870</b> [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea</i> (London, 1993); available online at <a href="http://www.sylloge-nummorum-graecorum.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sylloge-nummorum-graecorum.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sylloge-nummorum-graecorum.org</a>; see <b><u>SNGuk_0901_0869</u> </b>and <b><u>SNGuk_0901_0870</u></b>. 20 mm., 7.87 g., 12 h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1219151[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a common coin, of course, but I&#039;ve always liked the type, both for the obverse and the reverse.&nbsp; And because it&#039;s quite inexpensive as ancient coins go. There are so many available at any given time that it&#039;s pretty much a question of which one you like the best. I picked this one, even though a part of the N in PAN is off the flan, because everything else is there, and because of the brown coloring. Which it really looks like, I&#039;m happy to say!</p><p><br /></p><p>What I wanted to ask is whether anyone has access to the Anokhin reference.&nbsp; A book I realize is in Russian! The reason I ask is that of the hundreds of examples of the type listed on acsearch, almost every one up through about 2014 gives the reference as Anokhin 111. And almost every example since then gives the reference as Anokhin 1023. Does anyone know why the change? Was there an updated edition published?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks to anyone who can explain. And please post your own coins from Pantikapaion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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