Diobol - Camasarye / Parisades V Panticapaeum

Camasarye ruled the Bosporan Kingdom jointly with her son Parisades V during the mid-second century BC, an arrangement that reflects the unusual degree of political authority Bosporan queens could hold — a pattern with few parallels in the Greek world outside Egypt. The joint reign itself was brief and poorly documented, which accounts for the extreme scarcity of this denomination; the diobol was struck in tiny numbers relative to the bronze issues that dominated everyday Bosporan commerce. Panticapaeum, the kingdom's capital on the Crimean peninsula, was the sole mint.