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Ancient Coins
Like most coin collectors, I have a list of coins I want to own.
The list I plan to cover in this article will be personal and not just a list of the most famous ancient coins, so I won’t be listing
decadrachms,
pentadrachms. It’s not that I
wouldn’t love to own one or all of these, but their cost is not only out of my purchasing range but greater than my net worth. And even if I
had the money and bought the coins, my wife would kill me and bury me in the back yard, which is a very powerful disincentive.
Panticapaeum: Ancient Greek Coins of the Black Sea’s Northern Coast
This is the last article in a series on the Greek colonies on the northern coast of the
Black Sea (
Olbia; the second was on
As mentioned previously, most of the colonies in the area that is now southern
Ukraine and
Russia were settled during the seventh through fifth centuries BCE. The soil in this region was very rich, referred to as the “Black Land”, and cities’ economies were based on fishing, agriculture, viticulture, slaves, and manufacturing. The area’s products were not only traded with the Greek cities of