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30 Οκτ 2020 · Tyras began minting coins early in the fourth century–mostly bronzes, with a few silver and gold coins–and stopped by the end of the second. The variety of types minted by the city was not...
12 Οκτ 2020 · These cast bronze coins have Athena with a dolphin on the obverse and on the reverse is a four-spoke wheel or “sun disk”. Athena probably refers to Athens because Olbia did ship grain to Attica...
From ores taken from ancient mines in the Mediterranean; copper, electrum, silver and gold all became small tokens of intrinsic value that were used in trade all over the ancient world. At the time, there were over 1000 Greek city-states, many of which issued coinage.
26 Ιαν 2021 · Panticapaeum commenced minting gold and bronze coinage in the mid-fourth century BCE. These beautiful gold coins included staters and fractions. Initially, they were minted to a Bosporan...
This explains why in the local market of Colchis (unlike those in coastal trading centres) up until the Hellenistic period foreign coins were not in circulation. As early as the end of the sixth century ВС forms of money pre-dating coins had forced kolkhidki out of circulation, first of all bronze and then small iron ingots, so-called 'segments'.
Remarks on the monetary iconography of the Greek colonies from the West coast of the Black Sea during the Hellenistic period 91 Pl. 6: Hermes, Dioscurii and Demetra types bronze coins issued during the autonomous epoch in Tomis.
From the 8th century BC Greek cities began establishing colonies around the coast of the Black Sea. The mixture of Greek and native currencies resulted in a curious variety of monetary forms including these bronze dolphin shaped items of currency. • Silver stater. Aegina c 485 – 480 BC.
