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E-auction 234-157560 - bgr_454008 - SARMATIA - OLBIA Unité

SARMATIA - OLBIA Unité VF/XF
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Estimate : 175 €
Price : 53 €
Maximum bid : 71 €
End of the sale : 09 October 2017 14:01:00
bidders : 10 bidders
Type : Unité
Date: c. 330-250 AC.
Mint name / Town : Olbia, Sarmatia
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 11,92 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier. Défaut de métal au droit sur la tête du Dniepr. Joli revers. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue et cornue du dieu fleuve Borysthenes (Dniepr) à gauche.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Hache de cérémonie et arc dans son goryte (carquois).
Reverse legend : OLBI/ (AK).
Reverse translation : (Olbia/ magistrat).

Commentary


Très belle représentation du Borysthenes (le Dniepr, fleuve de 2.285 kilomètres qui traverse les plaines russes pour se jeter dans la Mer Noire). Importantes traces de surfrappe au droit et au revers.

Historical background


SARMATIA - OLBIA

(6th - 5th century BC)

Olbia as Istros (Istrus) was a Milesian colony, located not far from Borysthenes and Hypanis on Pontus Euxin, equidistant from Tyra and Panticapaeum on the Chersonese of Thrace. Its prosperity came from its strategic geographical position between the Scythian tribes and Pont-Euxin. It experienced its greatest economic expansion in the Hellenistic period. It was finally taken by the barbarians in the 3rd century AD.

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