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Stater - Parisades IV Panticapaeum
| Issuer | Bosporan Kingdom |
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| Year | 145 BC - 135 BC |
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| Value | Gold Stater (20) |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Panticapaeum |
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Parisades IV ruled the Bosporan Kingdom during a period of increasing pressure from the surrounding Pontic steppe, a squeeze that would culminate, within two generations, in the kingdom's absorption into the Pontic realm of Mithridates VI. These gold staters were the prestige currency of a dynasty that had sustained Greek civic culture on the northern Black Sea coast for centuries, functioning as much as diplomatic instruments — paid to Scythian and Maeotian chieftains — as commercial ones.
The Anokhin 1283 attribution places this issue in the middle decades of Parisades IV's reign. Relatively few specimens surface in consistent condition, reflecting limited original mintage rather than hard use.