bgr_870636 - SCYTHIA - OLBIA Unité
75.00 €(Approx. 81.00$ | 64.50£)
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 350-300 AC
Mint name / Town : Olbia, Scythia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 8 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 0,45 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan court, centré des deux côtés. Joli portrait. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête de Déméter à droite, couronnée d’épis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LÉGENDE RÉTROGRADE.
Reverse description : Dauphin nageant à droite surmonté d’un grain d’orge.
Reverse legend : OLBIO.
Reverse translation : (Olbia).
Commentary
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Historical background
SCYTHIA - OLBIA
(4th - 3rd 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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