3404 - Olbia (stater Demeter/eagle) over uncertain type (Leu Numismatik, EA 7, Feb. 2019, 90)

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 3404

330 BCE - 310 BCE | ΟΛBIO

Images

Overstriking coin

SO 594 - Olbia (AR stater) over uncertain type.jpg [1]

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	Leu Numismatik, EA 7 (23/02/2019), lot 90.
Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ^ᵖ:	European collection formed before 2005

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

Head of Demeter to left, wearing wreath of grain ears.

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

ΟΛBIO (Greek) Eagle left, wings spread and head turned back, on dolphin swimming left. Above, monogram.

Mint and issuing power

MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:

Olbia

Ancient regionAncient region.

Thrace (Sarmatia)

Modern countryModern country: Ukraine

AuthorityIdentifies the issuing power. The authority can be "pretended" when the name or the portrait of X is on the coin but he/she was not the issuing power. It can also be "uncertain" when there is no mention of X on the coin but he/she was the issuing power according to the historical sources:

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 330 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 310 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 12.6712.67 g <br />12,670 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: stater	AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 11 mm <br />0.1 cm <br />
DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 2222 mm <br />2.2 cm <br />

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:		Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:	SNG BM Black Sea1SNG BM Black Sea, n° 434 var. (same obverse die)., SNG Stancomb2SNG Stancomb, n° 359 (same obverse die)., HGC 3.23HGC 3.2, n° 1847, Anokhin 20114Anokhin 2011, n° 286-287
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/olbia city.anokhin.2011.244-5.262.264.277.281-2.286-7.292

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Mint and issuing power

MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ^ᵖ:

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Modern countryModern country:

AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ^ᵖ:

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context..

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:	exceptional	Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:	"Traces of overstriking and with some deposits"

References

^ Price, Martin J. (1993), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea, London, [132] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
^ Sylloge nummorum graecorum. Great Britain. Volume 11, The William Stancomb Collection of coins of the Black Sea Region, Oxford, 2000, liii p. of plates, map ; 31 cm.
^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2017), Handbook of Coins of Macedon and Its Neighbors. 3. Part 2: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike, Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster-London, xix, 232 p.
^ Anokhin, Vladilen Afanasʹevich (2011), Antique coins of the Northern Black Sea coastal region : catalog, Kiev, Izdatelʹskiĭ dom "Stilos", p. 326.