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Drachm Demetrios
| Issuer | Chersonesos (Taurica) |
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| Year | 90 BC - 80 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Artemis facing right, rendered in fine Hellenistic style; a bow and quiver are visible over her left shoulder, indicative of her role as divine huntress. The portrait exhibits careful attention to facial detail characteristic of late Hellenistic civic coinage from the northern Black Sea region. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Chersonesos — the Greek colonial city on the Crimean peninsula — struck these drachms during a period of acute external pressure, when Pontic expansion under Mithridates VI had effectively absorbed much of the Black Sea littoral. The city had voluntarily placed itself under Pontic protection around 110 BC, trading autonomy for survival against Scythian raiding. Coinage continued under local authority, but the political reality was subordination to one of Rome's most dangerous enemies.
The Stancomb corpus records no example, leaving the specimen count for this specific type genuinely limited.