Coin finds from the ‘towers' in the post-mithradates chora of European Bosporus

N the course of excavations of tower-looking constructions around fiftyidentifiable coins were found, in various years, at the borders of the faraway Chorain the European part of the Bosporan Kingdom, most notably, near the Uzunlar rampart.Mostly, these are coins minted in Panticapaeum in the second quarter-the middleof the 1st century BC (Mithradates, Pharnaces, Mahar) and coins minted in the firstyears of Asandr's ruling. Singular coins are dated to the 3rd century BC and the endof he 2nd century BC as well as the end of the 1st century BC - 1st century AD. Basically,they characterize distinctive features of the mintage and money in circulation in ruralareas in this part of the Bosporan Kingdom during the period when these fortificationswere in use, which, as demonstrated in written sources and by archaeological finds, wasvery short, i. e. between 47 and 9 BC.