Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Æ
| Issuer | Chersonesos (Taurica) |
|---|---|
| Year | 210 BC - 200 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Drachm |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | XEP ΑΡΧΙΚΛΕ |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Chersonesos |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Chersonesos maintained a fiercely independent civic identity throughout the Hellenistic period, resisting absorption into the Pontic sphere long after neighboring Greek colonies had fallen under Mithridatic influence. This bronze issue falls within a period of intensifying pressure from the Scythian tribes of the interior, conflicts that repeatedly forced the city to negotiate alliances with Pontic kings — arrangements that would ultimately cost Chersonesos its autonomy by the mid-second century.
The Anokhin sequence places this type late in the civic bronze series, before the coinage was reorganized under outside political constraints.