Detection of Surface-Silvering and Near-Surface Silver Enrichment on AD 253/254 Bosporan Staters by Electron Probe Micro-Analysis

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The article deals with the results of the EPMA investigation of surface of two groups of AD 253/254 Bosporan staters minted in the names of Rhescuporis V and Pharsanzes. It was found that a special silvering technique was used for each group. In the Phescuporis V’s coin production, depletion-silvering was executed by first tempering and oxidizing the flan, then attacking it with organic acids before striking. No silver coating was revealed on his coins. Meanwhile Pharsanzes staters have a silver coating with a thickness of up to 10 µm. The elements chlorine, calcium, sodium and magnesium that were first revealed in the surface layer suggest the use of a special paste for silvering the coins of this king. Its components could be chlorides of silver, sodium, ammonium, mercury, potassium hydrogen tartrate and chalk as a thickener. Both techniques for silver surface enrichment of coins were common practice in the Roman coinage from the late third to beginning of the fourth century AD.

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M. Abramzon

Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University; Institute of Archaeology

Autor responsável pela correspondência
Email: abramzon-m@mail.ru
Russia, 455000, Magnitogorsk; Russia, 117036, Moscow

Yu. Efimova

Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University

Email: abramzon-m@mail.ru
Russia, 455000, Magnitogorsk

N. Koptseva

Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University

Email: abramzon-m@mail.ru
Russia, 455000, Magnitogorsk

D. Gorlenko

Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University

Email: abramzon-m@mail.ru
Russia, 455000, Magnitogorsk

I. Saprykina

Institute of Archaeology

Email: abramzon-m@mail.ru
Russia, 117036, Moscow

T. Smekalova

Crimean Federal University named after V.I. Vernadsky

Email: abramzon-m@mail.ru
Russia, 295007, Republic of Crimea, Simferopol

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Declaração de direitos autorais © М.Г. Абрамзон, Ю.Ю. Ефимова, Н.В. Копцева, Д.А. Горленко, И.А. Сапрыкина, Т.Н. Смекалова, 2023

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