Cherson, ancient coins of

    Coins of ancient Cherson are scarce and often in low grade. Here are two, one from the Greek period and one from the Roman period. Click on the images to double their size. The primary reference is Anokhin's book, The Coinage of Chersonesus, which is in Russian and has been translated into English by H. Bartlett Wells (BAR International Series 69, 1980). Five types are listed in Sear's Greek Coins and their Values, volume I, 1664-1668 on pages 165-166.

 
AE21. 12:00. 6.23 grams.
Artemis kneeling left on prostrate stag which she spears
XEP  (the beginning of "Cherson" in Greek) below (not legible on this example)
/bull butting left with club and quiver beneath (not visible on this example)
ΔIAΓOPA  below
late 4th - first half of 3rd C. B.C.
Anokhin 77-81.



AE22. 6:00. 5.24 grams.
Female bust right (sometimes considered to be Julia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus)
EΛPCO-HNCEOV  [Eleutheria = "Freedom" in Greek]
/XEPCO-HNCEOV 
Artemis advancing right with bow and arrow, right hand raised overhead, stag head below right
Anokhin 287. 212-217 AD, regarded as an issue at the time of Julia Domna.

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