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Æ - Kallippo...
| Issuer | Cercinitis |
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| Year | 300 BC - 250 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Seated male figure, likely a river god or local deity, facing right in three-quarter view, depicted nude or lightly draped, resting upon rocks or ground; the figure holds a staff or sceptre upright in the left hand. The Greek legend KEPKI appears vertically to the left of the figure in the field, identifying the issuing city of Cercinitis. The rendering is typical of provincial Tauric Chersonnese bronze coinage of the early Hellenistic period, executed in a bold if somewhat archaic style. |
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| Obverse lettering | KEPKI |
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Cercinitis was a minor Greek colony on the western Crimean coast, politically subordinate to the far more powerful Chersonesus through much of the fourth and third centuries BC. This bronze was struck during a period when the city maintained a precarious semi-autonomy, issuing its own coinage in limited quantities before eventually being absorbed entirely into Chersonesian control. The surviving population of these bronzes is genuinely small — Cercinitis produced no silver of its own, and the bronze issues are correspondingly scarce in any collection.