Poslednee zoloto Bospora: klady staterov III v. n.e. iz poselenii︠a︡ Volna 1
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Série Археометрия Причерноморья. Выпуск 1
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Année de publication
2020
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The book is a publication of two hoards of the third century AD Bosporan electrum staters found in the ancient settlement of Volna 1 (the Taman Peninsula) in 2013–2014. Both treasures were concealed during the barbarian raids accompanied by the destruction
of the settlement: the first one in AD 205/206, the other in 232/233. The alloy of all the above staters was studied by XRF-analysis. The research of the Volna hoards yielded new data on the composition of gold alloys used at the Panticapaeum mint in the period under
consideration. The hoards indicate the fall of the Bosporan gold stater in this time. The XRF-analyses show that while most staters of the first hoard still contain about 50% gold, the latest one contains less 37% gold. The second Volna hoard clearly reflects the process
of catastrophic devaluation of the stater under Cotys III, whose electrum coins containing about 20% gold quickly lose their gold content and become silver and then billon coins by the end of his reign. Both hoards are of exceptional interest for study of the currency, economic and political situation in the Bosporus in the first third of the third century AD.
