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

From SILVER


330 BCE - 310 BCE | ΟΛBIO

Images
Overstriking coin
SO 594 - Olbia (AR stater) over uncertain type.jpg [1]
Location/history
Sale(s) ᵖ: Leu Numismatik, EA 7 (23/02/2019), lot 90.
Private collection(s) ᵖ: European collection formed before 2005

Overstriking coin

Description
Obverse: Head of Demeter to left, wearing wreath of grain ears. Reverse: ΟΛBIO (Greek) Eagle left, wings spread and head turned back, on dolphin swimming left. Above, monogram.
Mint and issuing power
Mint: Olbia Ancient region Thrace (Sarmatia) Modern country: Ukraine Authority:
Chronology
From 330 BCE to 310 BCE Hellenistic 323-30 BC Nomisma.org period
Physical description
Metal: Silver Nomisma.org Weight in grams: 12.6712.67 g <br />12,670 mg <br /> Denomination: stater Nomisma.org Axis: 11 mm <br />0.1 cm <br />
Diameter: 2222 mm <br />2.2 cm <br />
References
Coin reference: Coin series reference: "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1SNG BM Black Sea, n° 434 var. (same obverse die)., "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2SNG Stancomb, n° 359 (same obverse die)., "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3HGC 3.2, n° 1847, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]4Anokhin 2011, n° 286-287
Coin series web reference:

Overstruck type

Description
Obverse: Reverse:
Mint and issuing power
Mint ᵖ: Ancient region ᵖ Modern country: Authority ᵖ:
Chronology
From to period
Physical description
References
Coin type reference ᵖ:
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikes: exceptional Level of confidence:
Remarks: "Traces of overstriking and with some deposits"

References

  1. ^  Price, Martin J. (1993), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea, London, [132] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
  2. ^  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.
  3. ^  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.
  4. ^  Anokhin, Vladilen Afanasʹevich (2011), Antique coins of the Northern Black Sea coastal region : catalog, Kiev, Izdatelʹskiĭ dom "Stilos", p. 326.