нумизматика

The article revisits the first catalogue of ancient Greek and Roman coins in British collections, published by N.F. Haym in London in 1720. In the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, Haym found a golden coin from Cyrene with the image of strange small animal next to the silphium, the vegetative symbol of Cyrene, which evinced a multidisciplinary interest during the Enlightenment period in England.

The article deals with the messages of Arrian and Q. Curtius Rufus about the Sinopeʼs embassy sent to Darius III during the Macedonian invasion. After the death of the Persian King, the ambassadors together with the Greek mercenaries, which were at Darius, surrendered to Alexander the Great (Arr. Anab. III.24.4; Curt. VI.5.6–10). The purposes and circumstances of sending embassy in sources don't reveal.

At the turn of the first and second half of the IV century BC, qualitative changes in the development of the polis, associated with the arrival of new colonists, are taking place in Chersonesos. This circumstance also determines the transformations that have occurred in numismatics in this period, which the author of the article considers on the example of lower denominations – dihalks coin types.

Систематические раскопки боспорского города Китея и его некрополя, которые ведутся с 1970 г., дали значительный нумизматический материал, позволяющий в совокупности с другими датирующими находками более или менее точно определить основные этапы истории города. Настоящая заметка посвящена публикации нумизматических материалов из раскопок Китея и его некрополя в 1970–1987 годах.