XRF-SPECTROSCOPY OF BOSPORAN COIN ALLOYS DURING MITHRADATES VI’S TIME
Journal: Journal of historical philological and cultural studies
Year: 2019

New data have been obtained for the study of the "Pontic" period in the history of the Bosporus by measuring with help of X-ray fl uorescent spectroscopy the composition of the alloy of coins from the largest hoard of the 1 st c. BC found in 1985 on Kerch peninsula, on the shore of the Sea of Azov (kept in the Eastern Crimean Historical and Cultural Museum-Preserve). It is shown that during the wars of Mithridates VI Eupator against Rome (89-65 BC), anonymous obols struck from "pure" copper and