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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8243870, member: 26430&quot;]I don&#039;t personally believe the monogram is the Olbia mintmark (&quot;ΟΛΒ&quot; or similar), but there are other arguments for the &quot;Koson&quot; coinage being struck in Olbia. (I&#039;m agnostic on the several controversies.)</p><p><br /></p><p>RPC does now list both the AV Staters (both <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1701A" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1701A" rel="nofollow">1701A</a> and B [no monogram]) and the AR Drachm (<a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1701C" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1701C" rel="nofollow">1701C</a>) as being struck in Olbia, so I suppose that qualifies these!</p><p><br /></p><p>Both are photographed in their slabs, though I should probably crack them out:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1451518[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1451517[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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