MAIASP. 2021. No. 13 D.V. Andriyevskiy ( Imported
Hellenistic coins found near DOI: 10.53737/2713-2021.2021.43.50.030 Access
this article (PDF File) Pages: 875—881 |
Our
attention was attracted by rather small yet interesting numismatic sample of
the Hellenistic times. The coins were gathered at the beginning of the 2000s
by the residents of the village on the present-day surface of the Tavel hill. The sample consists of bronze coins minted in
Syracuse under Hiketas II and Hieron
II as well as in Alexandria or in Cyprus under Ptolemies
II, VI, and VIII, as well as IX or X. Judging by the fact that coins were
released by rather remote polities using different standards of coinage based
on low-value bronze alloys, it seems unlikely that they could be
simultaneously used in Southwest Taurica as means
of payment. We believe that we are dealing with offerings repeatedly made for
the local sanctuary which situated upon Tavel hill
between the 3rd and the 1st century BCE. We assume that
the reason why coins were donated to the sanctuary was that the images placed
on them were honored. The very fact of the discovery may surely testify that
some contacts took place in the time range mentioned above between the
population of the foothills of Taurica and those of
the polities in Central and |
Key words: archaeology, history,
numismatics, Scythian, imported coin. |
Received
September 3, 2021 Accepted
for publication September 18, 2021 |
About the authors: Andrievskiy Denis Vadimovich ( E-mail: rgo@rgo.ru Choref
Mikhail Mikhailovich ( E-mail: choref@yandex.ru |