250 BCE - 225 BCE | ΟΛ below
Overstriking coin
Olbia on Olbia - Roma Numismatics, E-Sale 94, 24 Feb. 2022, 294.jpg
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Overstruck variety
Olbia_Borysthenes_bow.jpg
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Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ:
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Roma Numismatics, E-Sale 94, 24 Feb. 2022, 294
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Radiate head of Helios facing
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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ΟΛ below (Greek) Conjoined foreparts of two horses
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Olbia
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Thrace (Sarmatia)
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Modern countryModern country: Ukraine
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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:
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 250 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 225 BCE
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Hellenistic 323-30 BC  periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 11.611.6 g <br />11,600 mg <br />
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AxisDescribes the directional relationship between the obverse and reverse of a numismatic object.: 66 mm <br />0.6 cm <br />
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| DiameterDescribes diameter of an object (in mm).: 2424 mm <br />2.4 cm <br />
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References
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Horned head of the river-god Borysthenes to left
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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OΛBIO (Greek) Axe and bow in bow-case
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ:
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Olbia
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Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ
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Thrace (Sarmatia)
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Modern countryModern country: Ukraine
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AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ᵖ:
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 320 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 300 BCE
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Classical 480-323 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
References
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.
- a b 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.
- a b 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.
- ^ Abramzon, Mikhail Grigorevich - Frovola, Nina A. - Peter, Ulrike (2019), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Russland, Staatliches Historisches Museum Moskau : Münzen des Nördlichen Schwarzmeergebietes, Berlin, De Gruyter.
