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Æ - Heroida...
| Issuer | Chersonesos (Taurica) |
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| Year | 190 BC - 180 BC |
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| Reference(s) | Anokhin#783 Sea#808-809 Stancomb#490-491 Khersonesa#157 1.1#673-675 |
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| Reverse description | A bull charging to the left with head turned frontally, depicted in vigorous low relief with musculature clearly articulated. The animal is shown in a lunging posture with forelegs bent and hindquarters raised, conveying dynamic movement. A horizontal exergual line divides the field, with the magistrate's name HPΩIΔA inscribed in Greek letters below, and the city ethnic XEP positioned above the bull in the upper field. The type is characteristic of Chersonesean civic bronze coinage of the second century BC. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΧΕΡ ΗΡΩΙΔΑ |
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Chersonesos in Taurica — the Greek colony on the southwestern tip of Crimea — maintained a fiercely independent civic identity long after most Pontic cities had folded into the orbit of Mithridates V and his successors. This bronze was struck during a period when the city was navigating pressure from Scythian tribes to the north while still functioning as a self-governing polis, a status it would eventually surrender to Mithridates VI sometime around 110 BC. The magistrate name partially preserved in the reference as "Heroida—" suggests a local eponymous official, a dating mechanism Chersonesos used consistently across its bronze coinage of this period.