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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2480231, member: 12789&quot;]<i><b>A Brief Introduction Into Monies of the Northern Black Sea Region</b></i></p><p><i><b><br /></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center"><i><b><img src="http://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh578/scottishmoney/blackseamap_zpsvccbvjwx.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </b></i></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><i><b><img src="http://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh578/scottishmoney/olbiya2_zpsgp5hkci9.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </b></i></p><p><br /></p><p><b><font size="6">Olbia</font></b></p><p style="text-align: left"><i><b>Some of the world&#039;s earliest coinage may have in fact had it&#039;s origins as amulets or offerings to a god.&nbsp; However they began to be issued, with eventuality they soon saw service as a medium of exchange.&nbsp; The curious aspect of the Delfin, or Dolphin money from the city state of Olbia in Southern Ukraine is of course the shape of the pieces, which were modelled on the Black Sea dolphins.&nbsp; Inasmuch as dolphins were rather prominent on later ancient coinages from Syracuse and Calabria, these pieces are unique for their shape.</b></i></p> <p style="text-align: left"><i><b><br /></b></i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i><b><img src="http://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh578/scottishmoney/delfin2_zpszaamwuwv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </b></i></p><p><i><b><br /></b></i></p><p><i><b>The earliest pieces seem to have had a bit more detail to the designs, as dorsal fins and eyes are featured.&nbsp; Later pieces were produced perhaps in a bit more of a mass production scenario, and lost some of the details.&nbsp; Later pieces also featured some alphabetic characters, most notably OY.</b></i></p><p><i><b><br /></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center"><i><b><img src="http://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh578/scottishmoney/skythianarrows_zpsbapm52lt.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </b></i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i><b><br /></b></i></p><p><i><b>Another form of currency were small spearpoints, these of course had a very utilitarian purpose for anybody during that time and as such they possibly were used as a form of money in trade.&nbsp; The number of them found in archaeological digs in Ukraine suggests that perhaps they were also used as a primitive form of money.&nbsp; The smaller of these two points is 18mm long, the larger of the two is 22mm long.&nbsp; They appear to have been cast in some form of a mold, then any spurs etc. were filed off during the manufacturing process.&nbsp; The longer of the two appears to have been filed for smooth edges, whilst the other one is a bit more aerodynamic.</b></i></p><p><i><b><br /></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center"><i><b><img src="http://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh578/scottishmoney/olbiaaxe_zpsrn36ecet.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center"><i><b><br /></p><p></b></i></p><p><i><b>Beginning ca. 400 BC Olbia began minting coinage in the more traditional form familiar to the rest of the world, this being an AE20 with the horned head of the river god, Borysthenes.&nbsp; Olbia was situated on what is now the Dnipro(Ua) or Dnepr(Ru) river in Ukraine.&nbsp; The reverse of the coin has a battle axe and a bow in case, and the legend Olbio in Greek.</b></i></p><p><i><b><br /></b></i></p><p><i><b><br /></b></i></p><p><i><b></b></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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