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Æ - Simaios
| Issuer | Chersonesos (Taurica) |
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| Year | 170 BC - 160 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | XEP ΣIMAIOY |
| Edge | Plain |
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Simaios is otherwise unattested in historical sources — his name survives only on this bronze issue, making the coin itself the sole evidence that he held civic office at Chersonesos during the mid-second century BC. The city was a Dorian Greek colony on the Crimean peninsula, fiercely independent and increasingly pressured by Scythian expansion during precisely this period.
Anokhin's corpus remains the principal reference for Chersonesian bronze, and the relatively narrow date range assigned to this type reflects die study rather than documentary evidence.