Silver Coin Issues of Tauric Chersonese in 246-189 BC
This publication uses the newly discovered types of Chersonesan silver coins with the monograms of the kings Antiochus Theos, Seleucus II Callinicus, Antiochus Hierax, Seleucus III Soter Ceraunus, and Antiochus III the Great, who reigned in Syria from 246 to 187 BC, to address the question of Chersonese’s possible entering the Syrian kingdom. It would shed light on the dark spots in the history of Chersonese from the second half of the third to the first half of the second century BC. Two types of silver coins united into a single series have been analysed.