Coins from the Bosporan necropolis of Volna 1 on the Taman peninsula

The article publishes coins from the excavations of the Bosporan necropolis of «Volna 1» in 2014–2018. Coins are important chronological indicators for both the dating of burials and the periodization of the Volna 1 Necropolis’ history as a whole. Except from a single silver Panticapaeum diobol of ca. 425–400 BC, all the remain coins are copper. Of the 119 coins, 117 were minted in Panticapaeum, one in Phanagoria, and another is the Leukon II’s striking. The later coin belongs to the Mithradatic period and was minted after 95 BC. All coins were used as «obols of Charon» and provide an important evidence of both the funeral rite and the currency of the epoch