E-auction 638-639416 - bgr_1005585 - SARMATIA - OLBIA Dauphin épigraphe
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| Estimate : | 120 € |
| Price : | 35 € |
| Maximum bid : | 83 € |
| End of the sale : | 07 July 2025 14:01:00 |
| bidders : | 12 bidders |
Type : Dauphin épigraphe
Date: c. 500-400 AC.
Mint name / Town : Olbia
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 30,5 mm
Weight : 3,71 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse
Reverse legend : APIXO.
Commentary
Émission épigraphe. Ce dauphin est un témoignage à la frontière entre Numismatique et Archéologie. Considéré comme pré-monétaire, ce type d’objet a pu être utilisé par des populations celtes au contact du monde grec à un moment où la monnaie ne s’est pas encore imposée. Dimensions (longueur 21 mm ; largeur 8 mm). Au droit notre exemplaire semble aussi porter une inscription avec une nageoire visible. Les exemplaires avec inscription sont beaucoup plus rares que les anépigraphes. L’un des seuls que nous ayons proposés a fait 275 € sur une offre maximum à 300 € avec treize ordres dans MONNAIES XXIV, n° 50.
Epigraph issue. This dolphin is a testimony at the border between Numismatics and Archaeology. Considered as pre-monetary, this type of object could have been used by Celtic populations in contact with the Greek world at a time when coin had not yet become established. Dimensions (length 21 mm; width 8 mm). On the obverse, our example also seems to bear an inscription with a visible fin. Examples with inscriptions are much rarer than anepigraphs. One of the only ones we offered made €275 on a maximum offer of €300 with thirteen orders in MONNAIES XXIV, n° 50
Epigraph issue. This dolphin is a testimony at the border between Numismatics and Archaeology. Considered as pre-monetary, this type of object could have been used by Celtic populations in contact with the Greek world at a time when coin had not yet become established. Dimensions (length 21 mm; width 8 mm). On the obverse, our example also seems to bear an inscription with a visible fin. Examples with inscriptions are much rarer than anepigraphs. One of the only ones we offered made €275 on a maximum offer of €300 with thirteen orders in MONNAIES XXIV, n° 50
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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