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Æ - Klemytadas
| Issuer | Chersonesos (Taurica) |
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| Year | 300 BC - 290 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | A bull butting left, depicted in dynamic profile above a horizontal club; a bowcase is shown horizontally in the exergue. The magistrate's name ΚΛΕΜΥΤΑΔΑ is inscribed above the bowcase, identifying the responsible civic official according to the standard Chersonesian administrative convention of naming magistrates on the reverse of bronze civic issues. |
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| Mintage | ND (300 BC - 290 BC) |
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Klemytadas appears as a magistrate name on this civic bronze issue from Chersonesos, the Dorian Greek colony on the Crimean peninsula that maintained a fiercely independent republican constitution well into the Hellenistic period — unusual among Black Sea Greek cities that increasingly fell under dynastic influence. The magistrate series to which this piece belongs served as the primary small-denomination coinage of a city that depended heavily on grain export and fishing revenues from the surrounding Tauric steppe.
Anokhin's sequencing places this issue in the decade following Chersonesos's treaty with the Bosporan Kingdom, a political accommodation the city accepted reluctantly.