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Coin Type: Holed bronze AE24 of Olbia in Sarmatia Mint and Date: Olbia, Pseudo-Autonomous, c. 2nd Century CE Size and Weight: 23mm x 24mm, 6.85g Obverse: OΛBIOΠO ΛЄ clockwise. Laureate head of Apollo right. Reverse: ΘЄOB - AΛЄB (?) anticlockwise. Sea-eagle with spread wings, standing right on fish. Countermarks: Winged caduceus in oval punch; 7 x 10 mm, Howgego 390 (102 pcs); large Δ in 6 x 7 mm punch, Howgego 787 (61 pcs) Provenance: Andreas Reich, January 2008 Ref: BMC 18; Anokhin 379 BW Ref: 002 036 121 |
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Note: Attribution and identification of the coin and its countermarks was by reference to a similar AE21 in the Forum Ancient Coins catalogue, pointed out by Andreas Reich. That catalogue says of the countermarks: "Countermark (2) is applied over countermark (1) and may have been used in the 170s, although the application of countermarks probably went on for a longer period of time." |
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