bgr_330339 - SARMATIA - OLBIA Unité
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 250-100 AC.
Mint name / Town : Olbia, Sarmatia
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 5,06 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier bien centré des deux côtés. Droit énigmatique. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Déméter à gauche ; derrière, tête à gauche coiffée d’un bonne phrygien.
Reverse
Reverse description : Hache de cérémonie et arc dans son goryte (carquois).
Reverse legend : OLBIO/ DIOS.
Reverse translation : (Olbia/ Dios).
Commentary
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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