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AE 13

SHH 7649

Parameter Obverse Reverse Notes Reference Provenance

2.271 g   12.8-13,6 mm   1.886 eqmm   tmax 3.0 mm   rh 0.55 mm   7:00 o'clock F   centering - / -   grooves - / -   σmax(SigmaTest, 240 Hz) = obv. 30.0, rev. 32.5 MS/m Turreted head of Tyche left. Naked archer kneeling left; ΟΛΒΙ[Ο] clockwise on right;BA below acher. This archer coinage was struck during a period of conflict between Olbia and Chersonesos. It is interesting that an archer is on the reverse of contemporary issues at Chersonesos, but facing in the opposite direction (cf. Anokhin 654). Olbia was unsuccessful in this conflict, and the victory of Chersonesos was reflected in that city’s quadriga-hoplite coinage (cf. Anokhin 658). [Pandora Numismatics] AMNG I/1 Table X 1/3; Anokhin 67; Ashmolean IV ---; BMC Black Sea 536/549 ( 3rd century BC); BMC Thrace 17 (before Alexander the Greate); Copenhagen II 97 variant (300-0 BC); Evelpidis I ---; Hart Blackburn ---; Lindgren I 693 variant (300-0 BC); Manchester ---; Milano VI/3 78/79 variant (3rd century BC); Netchitailo 154/163 (370-360 BC); München VII 82 variant (325-275 BC); Sear Greek 1688 (300-0 BC); Stancomb 405 (300-200 BC): Tübingen II --- Ex Pandora Numismatics 14/429, 8.2.2025