The eleventh volume of Coin Hoards is dedicated solely to hoardsof Greek coins found in the Cimmerian Bosporus. The inventory containsrecords of 271 new hoards or re-evaluations of old ones, and provides anindispensable supplement to the Inventory of Greek Coin Hoardsand previous volumes of Coin Hoards. The volume includes manyhitherto unrecorded hoards from the early 5th century BC to the 6thcentury AD. The majority of them were recently acquired by museums inSimferopol, Kerch, Tman, Phanagoria, Temryuk, Anapa, Krasnodar,Novorossiysk, Moscow and St Petersburg from the archaeological missionswhich had conducted wide-scale excavations in the Krasnodar region andthe eastern Crimea. Among the significant recent finds are large hoardsof Late Archaic silver coins and Late Bosporan staters from Phanagoria,as well as a group of purses from Mithradates VI's residence there,burnt in 63 BC; a Myrmicium hoard of Cyzicenes; big hoards of Bosporangold staters from the Taman Peninsula; huge hoards of 3rd-century BCbronze coins (more than 21000 pieces) and coins of the Mithradaticperiod (15000 and 8000 coins) from the Asiatic Bosporus; and a group ofhoards from Mithradates III's fortress in Parosta, a small Bosporancity, which met its end during the Roman-Bosporan War of AD 45-49, etc.Nine notes are devoted to brief publication of a group of the mostsignificant new hoards, related mostly to Phanagoria and the AsiaticBosporus. Huge Phanagorian hoards of the early 1st century BC are ofspecial interest, containing coins of Euboea, Delos and Crete, thePontus, western and southern Anatolia and the adjacent islands. Thesenon-native coins are exceptional finds for the Cimmerian Bosporus, aswell as in the numismatic profile of the northern Black Sea region as awhole. The distant coins form evidence for the voyages of Phanagorianmerchantmen to the eastern Mediterranean - to Hierapytna and Patara.These studies significantly expand our understanding of the Bosporancoinage and Greek economy of this period. The volume is accompanied by311 plates.
FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand NewThe eleventh volume of Coin Hoards is dedicated solely to hoards of Greek coins found in the Cimmerian Bosporus. The inventory contains records of 271 new hoards or re-evaluations of old ones, and provides an indispensable supplement to the Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards and previous volumes of Coin Hoards . The volume includes many hitherto unrecorded hoards from the early 5th century BC to the 6th century AD. The majority of them were recently acquired by museums in Simferopol, Kerch, Tman, Phanagoria, Temryuk, Anapa, Krasnodar, Novorossiysk, Moscow and St Petersburg from the archaeological missions which had conducted wide-scale excavations in the Krasnodar region and the eastern Crimea. Among the significant recent finds are large hoards of Late Archaic silver coins and Late Bosporan staters from Phanagoria, as well as a group of purses from Mithradates VI's residence there, burnt in 63 BC; a Myrmicium hoard of Cyzicenes; big hoards of Bosporan gold staters from the Taman Peninsula; huge hoards of 3rd-century BC bronze coins (more than 21000 pieces) and coins of the Mithradatic period (15000 and 8000 coins) from the Asiatic Bosporus; and a group of hoards from Mithradates III's fortress in Parosta, a small Bosporan city, which met its end during the Roman-Bosporan War of AD 45-49, etc. Nine notes are devoted to brief publication of a group of the most significant new hoards, related mostly to Phanagoria and the Asiatic Bosporus. Huge Phanagorian hoards of the early 1st century BC are of special interest, containing coins of Euboea, Delos and Crete, the Pontus, western and southern Anatolia and the adjacent islands. These non-native coins are exceptional finds for the Cimmerian Bosporus, as well as in the numismatic profile of the northern Black Sea region as a whole. The distant coins form evidence for the voyages of Phanagorian merchantmen to the eastern Mediterranean - to Hierapytna and Patara. These studies significantly expand our understanding of the Bosporan coinage and Greek economy of this period. The volume is accompanied by 311 plates.
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