Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion Hemiobol Ca. 470-460 BC. Rare

Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion.
Ca. 470-460 BC.
Hemiobol (Silver, 8.66 mm, 0.47 g).

Obv: Facing head of a lion.
Rev: Quadripartite incuse square.

Reference: Hoover, Handbook of Greek Coinage 7, 42; MacDonald, An Introduction to the History and Coinage of the Kingdom of the Bosporus, 4/1. Rare.

Pantikapaion was founded by Milesians in the late seventh or early sixth century BC on a hill on the western shore of the Cimmerian Bosporos, later named Mount Mithridates. According to Diodoros, the Archaianaktids ruled there from about 480 BC, and the city struck its first silver in the fifth century BC. In 438 BC Spartokos overthrew them, and his dynasty made Pantikapaion the capital of the Bosporan Kingdom, which traded its grain with Athens.

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