Description: Skythia, Olbia, 1st century BC. Laureate head of Zeus right, countermark: caduceus / OΛBIO-ΠOΛEITEΩN above and beneath eagle standing left, wings spread, Q-EY across fields, ΠA monogram in left field.

Diameter: AE17 mm

Weight: 3,7 g

Grade: gF/F

Attribution: Frovola 2249; Blarmamberg Coll. 42

Commentary: olive-green patina, some porosity, weak reverse

History: According to one source, the city was a re-foundation of Seleukos I of the earlier settlements of Olbia and Hyria.

Article Number: 057-07-08-42384