title: Coin issues of Tauric Chersonese in 187–175 BC
abstract: The dependence of Chersonese from the Seleucids and at the same time from Bosporos allows another interpretation of the Chersonesan coinage in the period in question. Bosporan King Perisades III gained influence over Chersonese due to some agreements that remains unknown to us. Iconography of Chersonesan coins from 187–175 BC shows the Bosporan ruler’s attributes, namely the images of a griffin and a gorytos on the lower denominations. On the senior denomination of silver coins there is an image
journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria