numismatics

The article is devoted to the analysis of Roman foreign-policy amicitia in the Bosporan Kingdom in the 1^st century BC. The author shows that amicitia in the Roman understanding represented not so much personal as socio-political and diplomatic ties based on mutual benefit, obligations, and moral categories such as fides, benevolentia, and gratia.

The article examines the silver coinage of Allifae and Fistelia in the 4^th century BC, issued in two series: early didrachms and late obols with fractional denominations. A comparative-typological analysis with issues from nearby Campanian cities is conducted to determine whether a mint existed in either settlement. It is concluded that the early didrachms of the early 4^th century BC were minted in Neapolis for the recruitment of mercenaries from Allifae and Fistelia.

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.