Finds of Coins of Kingdom of Pontus of Mithridates Eupator on the Territory of the Dnipro Right-Bank Forest-Steppe
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2020.06.093Keywords:
Kingdom of Pontus, Dnipro Right-Bank Forest-Steppe, coin finds, numismatics, trade, monetary circulation, Olbia, Northern Black Sea RegionAbstract
The findings of Pontic coins on the territory of the Right-Bank Middle Dnipro are analyzed. The purpose of the article is to study and systematize the findings of coins of the Mithridates Eupator Pontic state in the Dnipro Right-Bank Forest-Steppe.
The research methodology is based on general scientific and special numismatic methods, in particular, analysis, historicism, visual analysis, identification and typology of coins, mapping of coin finds with clear or relatively clear localization, iconographic. Comparative and chronological methods were also applied.
The scientific novelty. For the first time in historiography, a comprehensive study of coin finds on the territory of the Dnipro Right-Bank Forest-Steppe of the cities of Pontus and Paphlagonia during the time of Mithridates Eupator was carried out. The significant majority of the finds described in the article have been introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.
Conclusions. The analysis of the finds of 26 coins of the Pontic state of Mithridates Eupator on the territory of the Dnipro Right-Bank Forest-Steppe allows us to single out three points of concentration of such finds, in particular city Kaniv, villages Moshny and Kumeiky. The discovery of three points on the territory of the Dnipro Right-Bank Forest-Steppe with the accumulation of coins of the Pontic state of Mithridates Eupator, in our opinion, also suggests the functioning of these coins in commodity-money relations of the local population with the Greeks, although of course these relations were not Greek colonies of the Northern Black Sea coast. In our opinion, the discovery of three points of the coins accumulation on the territory of the Dnipro Right-Bank Forest-Steppe of the Pontic state of Mithridates Eupator also suggests the functioning of these coins in commodity-money relations of the local population with the Greeks, although it is clear that these relations were not as developed as in the Greek colonies of the northern Black Sea coast. The analysis of the typology of the Southern Black Sea region coins, discovered during the research of the Greek colonies in the Northern Black Sea region, and their comparison with the coin types, that were found in the Right Bank of the Middle Dnipro, shows that in the first half of the first century BC Olbia was the main trading partner for the inhabitants of this region, and that was the place, from where the coins of the Pontic state of Mithridates Eupator came to the Middle Dnipro.
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