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Stater

Issuer Chersonesos (Taurica)
Year 60 BC
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Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
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Obverse lettering ΧΕΡ
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Chersonesos, the Greek colony on the Crimean peninsula, issued gold coinage sporadically and under duress — by the mid-first century BC the city had been effectively absorbed into the Pontic sphere following Mithridates VI's campaigns in the region during the 110s BC. A gold stater of this date almost certainly reflects the monetary apparatus of Pontic administration rather than independent civic production, placing this piece within the broader Mithridatic coinage network at a moment when Rome and Pontus were locked in their final conflict.

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