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Drachm Menestratos
| Issuer | Chersonesos (Taurica) |
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| Year | 210 BC - 200 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Artemis depicted advancing to the left in a dynamic hunting composition, striking a stag that lies prostrate at her feet. She grasps a spear in her raised right hand and holds a bow in her left, conveying vigorous motion characteristic of late Hellenistic engraving. The reverse legend naming the city and the magistrate Menestratos is distributed across the field, flanking the central figural group. |
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| Mint | Chersonesos (Taurica) |
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Chersonesos — the Greek colony on the southwestern tip of Crimea — was under sustained Scythian pressure throughout the third century BC, eventually compelling the city to seek protection from the Pontic king Pharnakes I around 179 BC. This issue predates that capitulation by a generation, placing it squarely in the period when the city still exercised genuine independence and was actively managing its own coinage magistracy. The name Menestratos appears as the issuing magistrate, one of several known from this compressed late-third-century series.