ANCIENT CITIES OF TYRAS AND NIKONION COINS IN THE NMUH NUMISMATICS COLLECTION. V. GRINKOVSKYI СOLLECTION

Abstract

The article deals with an addition to the museum numismatics collection due to the Grinkovskyi collection. He had gathered it for thirty years investigating the Black Sea coast. The collection includes rare and even unique examples of ancient coins of the Northern Black Sea cities. The most valuable among them are coins minted in the cities of Tyras and Nikonion. These coins are evidence of the emergence of ancient cities already in the early period of IV–I century BC. The catalogue of Nikonion and Tyras coins, housed in the museum, is inlcuded into the article.