Drachm

Olbia, the Greek colony at the mouth of the Bug River on the Black Sea's northern shore, maintained its mint through extraordinarily difficult circumstances — the city had been sacked by the Galatian chieftain Brennus's retreating forces in the early third century and was under increasing pressure from Scythian and Sarmatian groups throughout this period. Coinage from the 200–190 BC window likely reflects a city asserting civic continuity as much as economic need.

The Stancomb corpus lists no example of this type — a meaningful gap given that collection's particular strength in Black Sea regional issues.