|
(Price is per coin) We have a lot Phanagorian coins from later part BC! These
coins are all small (10-13mm range) But are a much harder coin type to come
across than the Black Sea coins that we currently have listed. This lot came to
us in cleaned/semi-cleaned condition
(From Wikipedia) Phanagoria was the largest Greek colony on the Taman
peninsula, spreading on two plateaux along the Asian shore of the Cimmerian
Bosporus, 25 kilometers (15.5 mi) northeast of Hermonassa. The ancient city
became the great emporium for all the traffic between the coast of the Palus
Maeotis and the countries on the southern side of the Caucasus, and was chosen
by the kings of Bosporus as their capital in Asia, Panticapaeum being their
capital in Europe. Under Kubrat and Batbayan, Phanagoria was the capital of
Great Bulgaria.
Phanagoria was founded ca. 543 BC by the Teian colonists who had to flee Asia
Minor in consequence of their conflict with Cyrus the Great. The city took its
name after one of these colonists, Phanagoras. "The unusual nature of the Taman
peninsula near Phanagoria, with its ravines, crevices, hills, and low cones of
active volcanoes, must have impressed the ancient colonists even more than it
impresses us today", Ustinova has observed.[1]
In the 5th century BC, the town thrived on the trade with the Scythians and
Sindi. Located on an island in the ancient archipelago of Corocondamitis,
between the Black Sea and the Palus Maeotis, Phanagoria covered the area of 75
hectares (185.3 ac), of which a third part has been subsequently submerged by
the sea. In the early 4th century BC the burgeoning Bosporan Kingdom subjugated
much of Sindica, including the independent polis of Phanagoria. The town's
importance increased with the decline of the old capital, Panticapaeum, situated
on the opposite shore of the Bosporus. By the first centuries AD, Phanagoria had
emerged as the main centre of the kingdom.



|