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| Issuer | Olbia |
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| Year | 74-75 |
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| Reference(s) | Anokhin#536 II#491 , SNG Pushkin 1.1#486 , SNG Stancomb#931 , Frolova&Abramzon#2343 |
| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in the Hellenistic tradition with fine facial features and a laurel wreath encircling the hair. The legend OΛBIOΠOΛЄI (Olbiopolit[on]) is inscribed in Greek characters around the periphery of the field, partially visible to the left and right of the bust. The portrait is set within a slightly irregular flan characteristic of hammered provincial coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | IЄP ΘЄO B |
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Olbia's bronze coinage of the 70s AD was struck under Roman provincial supervision following the city's effective absorption into the orbit of Moesia Inferior. The town had been sacked by the Getae around 50 BC and spent the next century rebuilding both its population and its monetary infrastructure under increasing Roman influence. By the reign of Vespasian, when this piece dates, local magistrates still held nominal issuing authority but Roman administrative pressure was reshaping the city's institutions rapidly.
The Anokhin and Frolova-Abramzon references place this among a small, well-documented group with consistent fabric.