Hoards of the 4th – 3rd centuries bc Panticapaeum bronze coins from the excavations in the Manitra settlement (the Eastern Crimea)

In 2018, three hoards of the 4th and 3rd centuries BC Panticapaeum bronze coins were found during excavations in the Settlement of Manitra located in the Eastern Crimea, in Kerch environments. Two of them (consisting of 24 and 62 coins) belong to the initial phase of the monetary crisis on the Bosporus and were concealed in the first quarter of the 3rd century BC. The third hoard is dated to the last third of the 4th century BC, consisting of ten coins. The assemblages are the valuable evidence for the Bosporan economic situation and currency in the chora in the late 4th to the first quarter of the 3rd century BC. The latest coins in the hoards date to c. 290–275 BC, providing a terminus post quem for the end of the Manitra settlement life.