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Features

Issuer	Olbia (Skythia)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	350 BC - 330 BC
Currency	Drachm
Composition	Bronze
Weight	106.50 g
Diameter	66 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Cast
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 427550
References	Anokhin# 235 Vladlen Opanasovych Anokhin; 2011. Античные монеты Северного Причерноморья = Antique coins of the Northern Black Sea coastal region. Stilos, Kyiv, Ukraine. , SNG BM Black Sea# 390–392 var. Martin Jessop Price; 1993. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain) / Volume 9.1. The British Museum. Part 1: The Black Sea. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. , SNG Pushkin 1.1# 91–93 var. Sergei Kovalenko; 2011. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Russia, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts / Volume 1.1. Coins of the Black Sea Region: Ancient Coins from the Northern Black Sea Littoral. Peeters Publishers, Leuven, Belgium. , SNG Stancomb# 348 var. William M. Stancomb; 2000. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Great Britain / Volume 11. The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea region. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom. , Frolova&Abramzon# 237 var. Mikhail Grigorevich Abramzon, Nina Andreevna Frolova; 2005. Монеты Ольвии в собрании Государственного исторического музея = Coins of Olbia in the Collection of the State Historical Museum. Moscow, Russian Federation.

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Obverse

Head of Demeter facing, wearing grain-ear wreath and necklace.

Reverse

Sea eagle standing left, wings spread and head right, on dolphin left; OΛBIH above, retrograde B below.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
OΛBIH
B

Mint

Olbia, Moesia, Ukraine

Comments

Karyshkovskij p. 400, Таб. VI=C, 2; Frolova & Abramzon 237 var. (different control letter); SNG BM Black Sea 390–392 var. (no control letter); SNG Pushkin 91–93 var. (no control letter); SNG Stancomb 348 var. (different control letter); Sutzu II –.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (350 BC - 330 BC)

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