Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Catalogue of Coins of the Kings of the Spartocid Dynasty in the 2 nd Century BC (Hygiaenon, Spartocus and the Paerisades) 1

Catalogue of Coins of the Kings of the Spartocid Dynasty in the 2 nd Century BC (Hygiaenon,... Abstract In this article questions are examined relating to the minting of coins by the kings of the Bosporan dynasty of the Spartocids in the 2 nd century BC: Hygiaenon, Spartocus and the Paerisades. Most of the scholars studying the coins issued by the archon Hygiaenon confined his emissions to the middle of the 2 nd century BC (Shkorpil, Oreshnikov, Zograf, Shelov, Karÿshkovskiï). Stolyarik proposed a new dating for the issues of Hygiaenon coins, namely the first quarter of the 2 nd century BC but, starting out from the data obtained through comparative analysis of the typology of the Hygiaenon stater with two monograms on its reverse and in the light of the results obtained from the investigation of posthumous Lysimachus staters minted in Byzantium by H. Seyrig and C. Marinescu, the emissions of Hygiaenon coins can be dated to the end of the first half or middle of the 2 nd century BC ( c . 160-150 BC). The issue of coins by King Spartocus is only known thanks to a single didrachma bearing the name Spartocus and published in 1821 by Kohler, whose article was translated into Russian by G. Spasskiï in 1850. Kohne (1857), Prince Sibirsky (1859), Burachkov (1884) and others dated the Spartocus didrachma to the end of the 3 rd century BC, although as early as 1877 A. von Sallet drew attention to the fact that in the legend on that didrachma (now held in the collection of the SHM) the letter epsilon was of lunar shape – Є. In view of this von Sallet dated the Spartocus coin to the 2 nd century BC. Later, after accepting von Sallet’s comments, Podshivalov started assigning the Spartocus didrachma a date of c . 170 BC (1884, 1887, 1888). The second didrachma bearing the name of King Spartocus (held by the American Numismatic Society), published by K. Golenko in 1982 and then re-published by Anokhin (1986, No. 152) and Stolyarik, bears a legend incorporating an epsilon of rectangular shape (E). When we know about the different shape of the letter epsilon in the legends of the two didrachmas, it has to be acknowledged that they could not have been issued at one and the same time. This then raises the question as to the authenticity of the second didrachma bearing the name Spartocus. Staters bearing the name of King Paerisades come from different periods starting with the first decade of the 2 nd century up until 111/110 BC. The end of their issue is established by the death of Paerisades V. The staters vary on account of different letters and monograms found on the reverses. Conclusive study of these coins has so far remained a desideratum. A different chronological classification of staters bearing the name of King Paerisades is proposed, based on analysis of the typology of the monograms on the posthumous Lysimachus staters minted in Byzantium and Chalcedon carried out by H. Seyrig and C. Marinescu. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia Brill

Catalogue of Coins of the Kings of the Spartocid Dynasty in the 2 nd Century BC (Hygiaenon, Spartocus and the Paerisades) 1

Download PDF
60 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/catalogue-of-coins-of-the-kings-of-the-spartocid-dynasty-in-the-2-nd-e5jy2OcoCK

References (9)

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
Subject
Archaeology and History of the Black Sea Region
ISSN
0929-077X
eISSN
1570-0577
DOI
10.1163/15700577-12341254
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Abstract In this article questions are examined relating to the minting of coins by the kings of the Bosporan dynasty of the Spartocids in the 2 nd century BC: Hygiaenon, Spartocus and the Paerisades. Most of the scholars studying the coins issued by the archon Hygiaenon confined his emissions to the middle of the 2 nd century BC (Shkorpil, Oreshnikov, Zograf, Shelov, Karÿshkovskiï). Stolyarik proposed a new dating for the issues of Hygiaenon coins, namely the first quarter of the 2 nd century BC but, starting out from the data obtained through comparative analysis of the typology of the Hygiaenon stater with two monograms on its reverse and in the light of the results obtained from the investigation of posthumous Lysimachus staters minted in Byzantium by H. Seyrig and C. Marinescu, the emissions of Hygiaenon coins can be dated to the end of the first half or middle of the 2 nd century BC ( c . 160-150 BC). The issue of coins by King Spartocus is only known thanks to a single didrachma bearing the name Spartocus and published in 1821 by Kohler, whose article was translated into Russian by G. Spasskiï in 1850. Kohne (1857), Prince Sibirsky (1859), Burachkov (1884) and others dated the Spartocus didrachma to the end of the 3 rd century BC, although as early as 1877 A. von Sallet drew attention to the fact that in the legend on that didrachma (now held in the collection of the SHM) the letter epsilon was of lunar shape – Є. In view of this von Sallet dated the Spartocus coin to the 2 nd century BC. Later, after accepting von Sallet’s comments, Podshivalov started assigning the Spartocus didrachma a date of c . 170 BC (1884, 1887, 1888). The second didrachma bearing the name of King Spartocus (held by the American Numismatic Society), published by K. Golenko in 1982 and then re-published by Anokhin (1986, No. 152) and Stolyarik, bears a legend incorporating an epsilon of rectangular shape (E). When we know about the different shape of the letter epsilon in the legends of the two didrachmas, it has to be acknowledged that they could not have been issued at one and the same time. This then raises the question as to the authenticity of the second didrachma bearing the name Spartocus. Staters bearing the name of King Paerisades come from different periods starting with the first decade of the 2 nd century up until 111/110 BC. The end of their issue is established by the death of Paerisades V. The staters vary on account of different letters and monograms found on the reverses. Conclusive study of these coins has so far remained a desideratum. A different chronological classification of staters bearing the name of King Paerisades is proposed, based on analysis of the typology of the monograms on the posthumous Lysimachus staters minted in Byzantium and Chalcedon carried out by H. Seyrig and C. Marinescu.

Journal

Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2013

Keywords: numismatics; Black Sea region; Bosporan kingdom; Spartocids; Hellenism; chronology

There are no references for this article.