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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | 57 € |
| Maximum bid : | 60 € |
| End of the sale : | 29 March 2021 14:00:30 |
| bidders : | 7 bidders |
Type : Unité
Date: c. 160-150 AC
Mint name / Town : Olbia, Scythia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,19 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier bien centré à l’usure importante mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Patine marron avec de petites oxydations rougeâtres
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’Hubert Lanz, Münich en 2014
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête imberbe d’Héraklès à droite coiffée de la léonté, une contremarque sur la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Massue tournée à droite.
Reverse legend : OLBIO/ EIRHBA.
Reverse translation : (Olbia/ Eiréba).
Commentary
Au droit, la contremarque semble bien être une tête ou un buste casqué comme sur l’exemplaire de la collection Stancomb ou bien celle du British Museum.
Historical background
SKYTHIA - OLBIA
(2nd - 1st 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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