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Новый тип ольвийской медной монеты времен Митридата Евпатора
The New Type of the Olbian Copper Coin from the Time of Mithridates Eupator

Author(s): Vasyl Orlyk
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Ancient World
Published by: Издательский дом Stratum, Университет «Высшая антропологическая школа»
Keywords: Olbia; Mithridates Eupator; numismatics; monogram;

Summary/Abstract: All Olbian coins from the time of Mithridates Eupator that have been known and described in scientific and reference numismatic literature are anepigraphic in nature and it is difficult to date them clearly. The small copper coin of Apollo Gorytos type, which we found in one of the Ukrainian collections, has an alpha-shape monogram with broken gasta, to the right from Apollo’s head. This coin allows us to suggest a possible dating of these coins. We believe that coins with A (alpha) monogram could have been minted in 105 BC, in the year of Apollo in Olbia, that is, several years after the city became part of the Kingdom of Pontus.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 87-92
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Russian