bgr_893963 - SARMATIA - OLBIA Grand bronze
2 000.00 €(Approx. 2100.00$ | 1660.00£)
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Type : Grand bronze
Date: c. 437-410 AC.
Mint name / Town : Olbia, Sarmatie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 66 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 95,02 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Très belle tête de Gorgone, bien venue à la frappe. Fine usure régulière. Patine marron-vert
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Gorgone de face.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle volant à droite, tenant un dauphin dans ses serres.
Reverse legend : ARIC.
Reverse translation : (Olbia).
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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