bgr_863663 - SCYTHIA - OLBIA Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 160-150 AC
Mint name / Town : Olbia, Scythia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 9,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,42 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan globulaire à l’usure régulière. Patine vert foncé
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire a été acquis en 2011
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à droit.
Reverse
Reverse description : Dauphin nageant à droite surmonté d’un grain d’orge.
Reverse legend : OLBIO
Reverse translation : (Olbia).
Commentary
Sur cet exemplaire, le dauphin ressemble plus à un beluga.
On this example, the dolphin looks more like a beluga
On this example, the dolphin looks more like a beluga
Historical background
SCYTHIA - OLBIA
(4th - 3rd 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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