bgr_284941 - SARMATIA - OLBIA Dauphin
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Type : Dauphin
Date: c. 500-400 AC.
Mint name / Town : Olbia, Sarmatia
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,24 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 la ligne médiane marquée.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Commentary
Dimensions (longueur 24 mm ; largeur 9 mm). Signe prémonétaire coulé.
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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