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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Pantikapaion |
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| Year | 480 BC - 450 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered, Incuse |
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| Obverse description | Facing head of a lion rendered in archaic Greek style, occupying the full field of the flan. The mane is depicted with bold, stylized striations radiating around the visage, and the muzzle is rendered with characteristic early Pontic coinage vigour. No legend or inscription is present; the design fills the irregularly shaped flan to its edges. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Pantikapaion — modern Kerch, on the eastern tip of Crimea — was among the earliest Greek colonies in the Cimmerian Bosporus, and its silver fractions from this period represent some of the first coinage struck in the entire northern Black Sea region. The city's economy ran heavily on grain export to Athens, a trade relationship significant enough that Athens granted Bosporan merchants preferential tariff treatment by the fourth century.
At 0.45g, this hemiobol circulated as genuine small change in a colonial market where fractional silver was the practical currency of daily transactions.