Didrachm

Olbia, the Greek colony at the mouth of the Hypanis (modern Bug) river on the Black Sea's northern shore, was by the late second century BC operating under significant Pontic influence — Mithridates VI had effectively absorbed the city into his expanding sphere before 100 BC. This didrachm belongs to that transitional period, when the city retained nominal autonomy in its coinage while Pontic military presence grew increasingly unavoidable.

The Lockett collection reference places a confirmed example through the 1955 Glendining sale, one of the more important dispersals of Black Sea Greek material in the twentieth century.