Catalog
Denarius O, X Æ 18
| Issuer | Taman, Goths from |
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| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Barbarized radiate bust of a Roman emperor facing right, rendered in a highly stylized provincial manner. The beard is depicted as a series of pellets, while the hair is formed by upward-curving crescents with a single thick horizontal line bisecting the coiffure. Rays emanating from the crown terminate in pellets, and additional pellet-tipped rays appear behind the head. The overall execution reflects a degenerate imitation of contemporary Roman imperial portraiture. |
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| Mintage | ND |
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The Crimean Gothic communities of the Taman peninsula represent one of the more poorly documented issuing authorities in late antique numismatics. These small bronze pieces circulated among Gothic-Pontic populations well after the main Gothic migrations westward, in a region that remained a persistent fault line between Byzantine commercial influence and steppe political pressure. The specific die pairing here is unrecorded in Kleshchinov/Moravieva, which is not unusual — the series is underdocumented relative to its actual surviving population.