About The Early Hellenistic Gold and Silver Coinage from Tomis
About The Early Hellenistic Gold and Silver Coinage from Tomis

Summary/Abstract: The recently published “Black Sea” thesaurus gave us the occasion to revise the early series of gold and silver coins from Tomis. There are many significant news concerning the appearance of the first two Tomis series of Alexander‐type tetradrachms, having the reverse mint mark in the exergue and monogram in the left field or the same mint mark in the left field and the same monogram in the exergue. All of them were struck using the same obverse die but three different reverses. We notice the same symbols and the same phenomenon on the contemporary Lysimachus type staters of the city having mint mark in the left field and monogram in the exergue. Excepta single one (mint mark TO, moneyer N), all the others were struck using the same obverse die, the same mint mark and two moneyers. It seems that Tomis struck at the middle of the third century BC several series of staters and tetradrachms having specific obverse die‐links reflecting the growing political importance of the new polis after the Monopoly War.

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