Live auction - bgr_1184416 - SARMATIA - OLBIA Unité
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Live starting : Type : Unité
Date: c. 210-200 AC.
Mint name / Town : Olbia, Sarmatie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,07 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée des deux côtés. Joli revers. Portrait agréable. Usure régulière. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête radiée d’Hélios de face.
Reverse
Reverse description : Deux protomés de chevaux opposés.
Reverse legend : OL
Reverse translation : (Olbia).
Commentary
Typologie inhabituelle. Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
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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