Denarius O, X Æ 18

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.