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Type : Unité
Date: c. 350-300 AC
Mint name / Town : Olbia, Scythia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 10,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 0,96 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan court, épais, centré. Joli portrait. Patine vert 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
C’est l’une des plus petites dénominations frappées pour la cité.
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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