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Silver. Weight – 5,52 gr.

d=17/19 mm.

 Obverse: Lion’s head facing.

 Reverse: Bull’s head to the right in quadratum incusum. Mint: Phasis. Nominal: Siglos of the Persian system Date: 5th c. BCE.

Description, picture: Silver. Weight: e.g. 1,28 gr., 2,23 gr., 2,59 gr., 2,93 gr., 2,97 gr., 3,02 gr., 3,10 gr., 3,12 gr., 3,23 gr., 3,24 gr., 3,25 gr., 3,33 gr., 3,42 gr., 3,51 gr., 3,55 gr. d=17/18-19/20mm...

Silver. The weights range from 1,7 to 2,6 gr. 

d=11/12-12/13 mm.

 Obverse: Lion’s head to the right/left, showing teeth.

 Reverse: Lioness’ protome to the right in quadratum incusum. Mint: Phasis. Nominal: Attic...

Gold. Weight: e.g. – 2,87 gr., 3,37 gr., 3,44 gr., 3,55 gr. d=18 mm., 19 mm., 20/21mm. Obverse: Draped bust of Valerian, laureted, right, a bit crude in style. Distorted Latin inscription: prototype – IMP. C. P. LIC...

Silver. Weights range from 1,2 to 2,6 gr.

d≈12 mm.

 Obverse: Archaic female head to right/left within the linear circle or in border of the dots

. Reverse: Bull’s head to right within the linear circle. Some...

Jason and the Argonauts arriving at Colchis. The Argonautica tells the myth of their voyage to retrieve the Golden Fleece, painting by Charles de La Fosse, circa 1672. Palace of Versailles.

Statue of Medea, a Colchian princess best known in Greek mythology for her relationship with the Greek hero Jason, created by the famous Georgian sculptor Davit Khmalazde, erected in 2007 in Batumi, Georgia. The sculpture...

Archaeopolis is a Byzantine city-fortress in ancient Lazica (Colchis) in modern-day western Georgia commanding the junction of the River Tekhuri and a strategic route to the north. Archaeopolis...

Medea, oil on panel painting with gilded background by Frederick Sandys, 1868. Medea is a key figure in the story of the quest for the Golden Fleece and a recurring subject of art and musical productions. According...

Ruins inside the Byzantine Fortress of Archaeopolis (Nokalakevi) and the 6th-century CE Forty Martyrs’ Church, originally built as an aisled basilica and later reconstructed several times and turned into...