Mikhail G. Abramzon ^a,b,#, Sergey N. Ostapenko ^c,##, Alexey V. Surkov ^d,###

^a Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia;
^b Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University, Magnitogorsk, Russia
^c “Phanagoria” State Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve, Sennoy, Russia
^d “Archaeological Society of Kuban” LLC, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

^#E-mail: abramzon-m@mail.ru
^##E-mail: osn-23@mail.ru
^###E-mail: surkovarh@mail.ru

Keywords: Cimmerian Bosporus, Eastern Azov region, coin hoards, currency, Maeotians.

The paper presents a hoard of the early third-century BC Panticapaeum bronze coins, found during excavations at the Maeotian settlement of Tikhovsky 1, Krasnoarmeisky district of Krasnodar Territory, in 2021. The hoard contains 152 coins with “Pan / lion head, below sturgeon” bearing countermarks of a star and a bowcase. In the interfluve of the Kuban, Protoka and Angelinsky Erik, a group of Maeotian settlements is located, which is associated with a pattern of similar coin hoards concealed at the turn of the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. These hoards indicate the easternmost border of the Bosporan kingdom and localize the Maeotian territories annexed during the Bosporan expansion to the east.

DOI: 10.31857/S0869606323010026, EDN: MBAVKT