Антична монета з поселення Тарасова Гора біля с. Жаботин

• Published in: Археологія і давня історія України
• Date: 2022
• Main Author: Ляшко, Ю.Ю.
• Format: Article
• Language: Ukrainian
• Published: Інститут археології НАН України 2022
• Subjects: Публікація археологічних матеріалів
• Online Access: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/187580
• Journal Title: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Cite this: Антична монета з поселення Тарасова Гора біля с. Жаботин / Ю.Ю. Ляшко // Археологія і давня історія України: Зб. наук. пр. — К.: ІА НАН України, 2022. — Вип. 1 (42). — С. 115-119. — Бібліогр.: 30 назв. — укр.

Опубліковано античну монету, вперше знайдену на еталонній пам’ятці доби раннього залізного
 віку, поселенні Тарасова гора біля с. Жаботин Черкаського р-ну й області. Тhe paper is devoted to the first find of ancient coin
 on the territory of the Tarasova Hora settlement near
 Zhabotin village of the Cherkasy district. It is the coin
 of Olbia city — the obol «borisphen». It was minted in
 300—280 BC. Such coin was already found in a complex
 of things from the Early Iron Age of the 5th—
 4th centuries BC. That is the evidence of existence here
 of some sight of this period. The Finding of such coins
 proves the presence of cultural and trade-economic relations
 of the local indigenous population with the cities
 of North-Western Pontic region and Olbia in particular.
 On the reverse of the coin the inscription of OLBIO
 is visible as well as the images of gorytos and axe. On
 Avers you can disassemble the fuzzy image of the hair
 curl. The coin is rectangulare, with dimensions of 1.8 ×
 1.4 cm. Mass 2.36 gr. The surface is covered with green
 oxide and has traces of scales from staying in the fire.
 Thus, since the coin has no difference it can be dated to
 the 300—280 BC.
 Such coins are not rare, and their findings are
 known in the large territory from the Crimea to the
 Middle Dnieper. Also two similar coins were accidentally
 found in this region on the banks of Tyasmin River
 near the Raygorod village of Cherkasy district. These
 are the bronze coins minted by Olbia in 300—280 BC,
 however, according to numismatics opinion, were in
 circulation until 230 BC, during the first half of the
 3rd century BC. These coins, called by the researchers
 «Borisphens», depicting on the avers of the bearded
 Scythian deity of the Dnieper River (Borisphenes),
 were the only bronze coins produced in the Northern
 Pontic region and have got a wide spread outside Olbia,
 practically impossible for coins of non-cost metals.