cn type 22870
cn type 22870-0
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cn type 22870

Mint
Olbia 🔍  
Date

c. 325-320 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Demeter wearing corn wreath around turreted crown, left
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Reverse
Legend
ΟΛΒΙΟ ΣΩΣΤΡΑ
Design
Archer with bow case kneeling to shoot, left.
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Persons

Magistrate: Sostratos 🔍

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 19 mm / Min: 18 mm
Average Weight
4.75 g (6x)
Axes
6 (1x) 12 (4x)
Citation

Anochin, Antičnye monety Severnogo Pričernomor‘ja, Kiev 2011 nr. 222  (c. 360-350 BC)  ❐

Price, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum 9 The British Museum 1. The Black Sea, 1993 nr. 536-537  ❐

Stancomb, The William Stancomb collection of coins of the Black Sea region, 2000 nr. 402-403  ❐

Abramzon and Frolova, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Russland. Staatliches Historisches Museum Moskau. Münzen des nördlichen Schwarzmeergebietes, Berlin-Boston 2019 nr. 1299–1324  ❐

Stolba, 'Archers' of the Blessed City: City's Deliverance in the Coinage of Early Hellenistic Olbia 10, 2015 p. 44, nr. 3  ❐

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cn type 22870, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/22870 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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