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Æ23 - Kanites
| Issuer | Kings of Skythia |
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| Year | 100 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Two upright stalks of grain with prominent ears at their tips, rendered centrally in the field. The royal legend BAΣIΛEΩΣ KANITOY is disposed around the design, reading downward to the left and right respectively, with the abbreviation BAK appearing in the lower exergual area. The composition is characteristic of Hellenistic coinage from the northern Black Sea region, emphasizing agricultural symbolism. |
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| Reverse lettering | BAΣIΛEΩΣ KANITOY BAK |
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Kanites is among the most obscure rulers in the Skythian dynastic sequence, known almost exclusively through his coinage rather than any literary or epigraphic source. The bronze issues attributed to him fall within a period of considerable political fragmentation in the Pontic steppe region, when successor rulers of diminishing authority were striking autonomous coin types partly to assert legitimacy and partly out of practical necessity for local exchange. SNG Stancomb 314 places this piece within a well-documented private collection that has since become a primary reference for this otherwise poorly catalogued series.