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Bronze AE
| Issuer | Olbia (Skythia) |
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| Year | 50 BC - 47 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | A lyre depicted in relief at the center of the field, rendered with three vertical strings visible between the arms of the instrument. The type is characteristic of the civic coinage of Olbia and reflects the city's Hellenic cultural affiliations. The flan is irregular and the surfaces show typical patination consistent with ancient bronze coinage of the Black Sea region. |
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| Mint | Olbia, Moesia, Ukraine |
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Olbia's bronze coinage of the mid-first century BC was struck under conditions of extreme political disruption. The city had been sacked by the Getan king Burebista around 55–50 BC, its population scattered and its civic institutions effectively destroyed. These small bronzes are among the last issues before that catastrophe fully silenced the mint, or represent a tentative resumption of local coinage by a community trying to reconstitute itself from near-total collapse.
Anokhin 517 is a scarce type by any measure.