Many exhibitions and expositions with display of ancient and modern coins and banknotes and also another relics concerning to ancient history of Ukraine are carried out in Museum annually: Antique ceramics and Medieval old Russian fine plastic arts. The information about the most interesting of them will appear regular in our resource.

The first equivalent of money in the Northern Black Sea Coast were arrow-head with blunt and round ends, other configurations what excluded them from the using as a weapon. In VII-VI BC they were issued in Scythian Kingdom and also in Greek's settlements in Berezan island and in cities Olbia and Cercinitis. In VI BC the cast coins in the shape of "dolphins" and "fishes" appeared in Olbia and one century later in Cercinitis.

1. Cimmerians. Arrow-head. XI-IX BC. 2. Cimmerians. Arrow-head. VIII-VII BC. 3. Cimmerians. Arrow-head. VIII-VII BC. 4. Scythians. Arrow-head. VII-V BC. 5. Scythians. Arrow-head. VII-V BC. 6. Scythians. Arrow-head. VII-V BC. 7. Scythians. Arrow-head. VII-V BC. 8. Scythians. Arrow-coin. IV-I BC. 9. Borysthenes. Arrow-coin with smooth surface of blades. VII-V BC. 10. Borysthenes. Arrow-coin with "branches". VII-V BC. 11. Borysthenes. Hybrid Arrow-fish coin. V BC. 12. Borysthenes. Hybrid Arrow-fish coin. V BC. 13. Olbia. Dolphin-coin. VI-V BC. 14. Olbia. Dolphin-coin with rests of casting. VI-V BC. 15. Olbia. Large Dolphin-coin. VI-V BC. 16. Olbia. Small Dolphin-coin. VI-V BC. 17. Olbia. Dolphin-coin АРIХО. V BC. 18. Olbia. Dolphin-coin АРХО. V BC. 19. Olbia. Dolphin-coin Y. V-IV BC. 20. Olbia. Dolphin-coin Y. V-IV BC. 21. Cercinitis. Arrow-coin. V BC. 22. Cercinitis. Hybrid Arrow-fish coin. V BC.

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