Watch List notes:

TAURIC CHERSONESOS. Chersonesos. AE (Bronze, 23 mm, 6.94 g, 7 h), circa 211-217 AD. ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΑC Draped bust of Chersonas (with the features of Caracalla?) to right, wearing laurel wreath; to right, lyre. Rev. ΧΕΡCONHCOY Artemis Parthenos standing facing, head to right, holding bow and arrow in her left hand and hurling javelin with her right; at her feet to left, stag springing left, head right. SNG Moskau 4068-73. An attractive example of this lovely Severan issue. Very fine.


From the Pontos Euxeinos Collection, formed in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Leu Web Auction 19, 26-28 February 2022, 134.