The contacts of the population of the Scythian times, both settled and nomads, with the Greeks of the Northern Black Sea region left a corpus of various finds, including ancient coins. Among the corpus of ancient Greek coin finds on the territory of the North-Eastern Kirovohrad region, that is the border of the forest-steppe and the steppe, a special place belongs to the early coins of the ancient Greek policies from the Kerch Strait. The article analyses the hoard of 12 small silver tetartemorions coins of Panticapaeum and Hermonassa the end of 6th -beginning of 5th centuries BCE with the diameter of a coins near 5-9 mm and weight 0,13-0,38 g, which was found near the urban-type settlement of Nova Praha, Oleksandriia district, Kirovohrad region, in September 2019. The tetartemorions of Panticapaeum has stylized image of an ant on the obverse, and quadratum incusum on the reverse. The tetartemorions of Hermonassa (city-poleis in the Northern Black Sea region located a few miles of Panticapaeum, on the opposite shore of the sea) has uncertain image, possibly it is a silhouette of a sea animal (?), possibly it is a bow (?), under the picture is a line on the obverse, on reverse there is a quadratum incusum with four points. The complex of small coins of Panticapaeum and Hermonassa the end of the sixth – beginning of the fifth centuries BCE as well as a whole corpus of other finds of ancient Greek coins testify to the existence of economic, particularly, trade relations of the population of the Steppe and Forest-Steppe zones of the Scythian era with the ancient world. The find of the hoard of the small coins of Panticapaeum and Hermonassa on border of the forest-steppe zone near the other known single finds of the Bosporan Kingdom coins in this region indicates the use of these petty silver coins in trade operations of representatives of the Greek apoikias of the Northern Black Sea region with the surrounding population of the Scythian era

hoard, coins, tetartemorions, trade, coin finds, Greeks, Scythians, Panticapaeum, Hermonassa, steppe, the forest-steppe