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Æ10
| Issuer | Pantikapaion |
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| Year | 250 BC - 150 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Pantikapaion, the dominant Greek colony on the Cimmerian Bosporus, controlled the grain trade routes connecting the Black Sea steppe to Athens and the wider Aegean world. By the mid-third century BC the city was transitioning from its earlier electrum and gold issues — among the most artistically ambitious of any Greek colonial mint — toward a purely bronze civic coinage that served local market exchange rather than long-distance commerce.
The Anokhin sequence places this type well into the period of Spartocid dynastic rule, a half-Greek, half-Thracian lineage that governed Pantikapaion as nominal vassals of whatever Pontic power held regional dominance.