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A bronze coin of Olbia showing the river god Borysthenes Coin Type: Bronze AE19 of Olbia in Sarmatia
Mint and Date: Olbia, 300-260 BCE.
Size and Weight: 19mm, 6.93g
Obverse: Horned, bearded head of the river-god Borysthenes (modern Dneiper) left.
Reverse: OΛBIO
Bow in case; above it, an axe; above that, a monogram.
Provenance: rustyromans (eBay), February 2010
Ref: GCV 1685; SNG BM 496; SNG Cop.85 var (monogram)
BW Ref: 003 048 155
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