bgr_284936 - SARMATIA - OLBIA Dauphin
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 85.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 85.00 €
Type : Dauphin
Date: c. 500-400 AC.
Mint name / Town : Olbia, Sarmatia
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 0,95 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan coulé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Dauphin avec le nez, l’œil, la nageoire caudale et l’évent.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Commentary
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 24 mm ; largeur 13 mm). Signe prémonétaire coulé. les auteurs du SNG. de la collection Stancomb de la Mer Noire et de sa région assignent ces signes pré ou para-monétaires à Olbia où elles ont été trouvées dans la région. Huit exemplaires sont publiés (WSC. 334 à 341 avec des poids compris entre 0,62 g et 2,02 g.
This dolphin is a testimony at the border between Numismatics and Archaeology. Considered 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 24 mm; width 13 mm). Cast pre-monetary sign. The authors of the SNG. of the Stancomb collection of the Black Sea and its region assign these pre- or para-monetary signs to Olbia where they were found in the region. Eight examples are published (WSC. 334 to 341 with weights between 0.62 g and 2.02 g
This dolphin is a testimony at the border between Numismatics and Archaeology. Considered 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 24 mm; width 13 mm). Cast pre-monetary sign. The authors of the SNG. of the Stancomb collection of the Black Sea and its region assign these pre- or para-monetary signs to Olbia where they were found in the region. Eight examples are published (WSC. 334 to 341 with weights between 0.62 g and 2.02 g
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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