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Æ - Eudromo...
| Issuer | Chersonesos (Taurica) |
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| Year | 300 BC - 290 BC |
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| Reference(s) | Anokhin#700 Sea#766-768 Stancomb#474-477 Khersonesa#77 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (300 BC - 290 BC) |
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Chersonesos — the Greek colony on the Crimean peninsula — maintained a fiercely independent civic identity throughout the early Hellenistic period, resisting absorption into the surrounding Scythian world through a combination of fortification and aggressive naval patrol. The magistrate name Eudromo preserved on this issue places it within a documented sequence of eponymous officials whose names anchor the city's bronze coinage chronologically, a rare administrative continuity for a colony of this size and remoteness.
Anokhin's classification remains the standard reference for sequencing these bronzes, though Stancomb's numbering diverges slightly on die groupings within the type.