Ancient Coinage of Pontos, Phanagoria


[Anokhin 194]
Phanagoria or Phanagoria, on the Taman Peninsula, just east across the water from the Tauric Chersonese, in Pontos (or Bosporus). For a short time in 14-12 BC it was renamed Agrippia and Kaisareia, in honour of Agrippa for his support of King Polemo I.

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Anokhin 194Phanagoria, Pontos AE21 Tetrachalkon. ca 105-90 BC. Bust of Artemis right, draped, bow & quiver at shoulder / ΦANAΓO-ΡITΩN, forepart of stag reclining left. MacDonald 166/1. TextImage
Anokhin 205aPhanagoria, Pontos. Late 2nd-Mid 1st Century BC. AR Drachm. Laureate bust of Apollo right / Thyrsos. ΓYΘ monogram below. Anokhin 205a; MacDonald 173.2.TextImage
Anokhin 207Phanagoria, Pontos-Thrace, AE29 struck under Mithradates VI, 121-63 BC. Head of Mên right, wearing Phrygian cap / ΦANAΓOΡITΩN, Dionysos, wearing short chiton, standing left, holding bunch of grapes and thyrsos, panther at foot left. Anokhin 207; Hermitage 27.412.TextImage
Anokhin 207
Modern fake
MODERN FAKE: Phanagoria, Pontos-Thrace, AE29 struck under Mithradates VI, 121-63 BC. Head of Mên right, wearing Phrygian cap highly decorated with laurels and flowers / ΦANAΓOΡITΩN, Dionysos, wearing short chiton, standing left, holding bunch of grapes and thyrsos, panther at foot left. Modern fake of Anokhin 207; Hermitage 27.412.TextImage
BMC 1Phanagoria, Pontos. AR drachm. 390 BC. Youthful head of Kabeiros left, wearing conical cap. / ΦANA above bull butting left, barley corn below. BMC 1; BMC Black Sea 987-989; Traité II-4 1761; Anokhin 77.TextImage
BMC 3Phanagoria, Pontos. AE11. Late 4th-3rd cent. BC. Head of Pan or satyr right. / ΦA beneath bow and arrow. BMC 3; BMC Black Sea 990-993; Traité II-4, 1765; MacDonald 157; Sear SG 3615.TextImage
BMC 4Phanagoria, Pontos. AR tetrobol. 2.17 g. 109-105 BC. Diademed head of Artemis right, quiver behind shoulder. / ΦANAΓOΡITΩN, rose. BMC 4; SNG BMC Black Sea 999; Anokhin 193; Sear SG 3614.TextImage
MacDonald 77Phanagoria, Pontos. AR diobol. 1.12 g. 390 BC. Youthful head of Kabeiros left, wearing conical cap. / ΦANA above forepart of bull left, barley corn to right, all within shallow circular incuse. MacDonald 77; Traité II-4 1762. (rev. legend var - "ΦA" only - of BMC Black Sea 988 and Anokhin 78).TextImage
MacDonald 274Phanagoria, as Kaisareia, Pontos. AE21. 14-12 BC. Veiled and draped bust of Aphrodite right, kalathos on head. / KAI-ΣA ΡE-ΩN in two lines to left and right of sceptre. MacDonald, 274; SNG Cop. 9.TextImage
RPC 1935Phanagoria as Agrippia, Pontos. AE8. 14-12 BC. Veiled and draped bust of Aphrodite (or Livia) right. / AΓΡIΠΠEΩN, prow left, H to right, two dots below. Macdonald 275; RPC 1935; SNG Stancomb 631.TextImage
SNG BM 988Phanagoria, Pontus, AR diobol. 4th century BC. 1.71 g. Male head left wearing pileus. / ΦA above bull's head left; barley corn to right. SNG BM Black Sea 988; SNG Stancomb 621; Anokhin 78.TextImage
SNG BM 989Phanagoria, Pontus, AR Tetartemorion. 4th century BC. 0.28 g. Male head left wearing pileus. / Φ-A to left and right of barley corn. SNG BM Black Sea 989; Anokhin 79.TextImage
SNG BMC 997Phanagoria, Pontos. Circa 100-75 BC. Billon Didrachm. Wreathed head of Dionysos right / ΦANA-ΓOΡI-TΩN in three lines within an ivy wreath; monogram above. SNG Stancomb 625. TextImage
SNG BMC 998 Phanagoria, Pontos. Late 2nd-Mid 1st Century BC. AR Drachm. 3.81 g. Laureate bust of Apollo right / Thyrsos. ΓY&Theta. SNG BMC Black Sea 998; SNG Stancomb 626; SNG Cop 3; Anokhin 205.TextImage
Anokhin 205aPhanagoria, Pontos. Late 2nd-Mid 1st Century BC. AR Drachm. Laureate bust of Apollo right / Thyrsos. ΓYΘ monogram below. Anokhin 205a; MacDonald 173.2.TextImage
SNG BMC 1000Phanagoria, Pontus, AE22 tetrachalkon. 105-90 BC. Head of Artemis right in pointed cap, bow and quiver at shoulder / ΦANAΓOΡITΩN beneath stag recumbent left. BMC Black Sea 1000-1003; MacDonald 166.TextImage
Sear SG 3615Phanagoria, Pontos, 3rd Century BC, AE14. Bearded head of Pan left, wreathed with ivy / ΦA beneath bow and arrow. BMC 3; BMC Black Sea 990-993; Traité II-4, 1765; MacDonald 157; Sear SG 3615.TextImage
See also: History and Archaeology of Phanagoria (pdf) by V.D. Kuznetsov
Entry for Phanagoria on the Digital Historia Numorum
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