bgr_273236 - SARMATIA - OLBIA Unité
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Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 85.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 85.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 330-250 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sarmatia, Olbia
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,45 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais et irrégulier, large bien centré. Visage oblitéré par la surfrappe. Frappe un peu brouillée au revers. Jolie patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue et cornue du dieu fleuve Borysthenes (Dniepr) à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Hache de cérémonie et arc dans son goryte (carquois).
Reverse legend : OLBI/ E[PI]
Reverse translation : (Olbia/ magistrat).
Commentary
Très belle représentation du Borysthenes (le Dniepr, fleuve de 2.285 kilomètres qui traverse les plaines russes pour se jeter dans la Mer Noire). Importantes traces de surfrappe au droit et au revers.
Very beautiful representation of the Borysthenes (the Dnieper, a 2,285 kilometer river which crosses the Russian plains to flow into the Black Sea). Significant traces of overprinting on the right and reverse
Very beautiful representation of the Borysthenes (the Dnieper, a 2,285 kilometer river which crosses the Russian plains to flow into the Black Sea). Significant traces of overprinting on the right and reverse
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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