v57_0102 - AKARNANIA - LEUKAS Statère
MONNAIES 57 (2013)
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 650.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 650.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Statère
Date: c. 320 AC.
Mint name / Town : Leucas, Acarnanie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,54 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau Pégase. Représentation inhabituelle au revers. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Pégase volant à droite.
Obverse legend : L
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête d'Athéna à droite, coiffée du casque corinthien ; derrière pampre surmontée d’une grappe de raisin au-dessus d’une amphore.
Reverse legend : A-I
Commentary
Représentation inhabituelle au revers.
Historical background
AKARNANIA - LEUKAS
(350-306 BC)
Leucas is an island 32 km long and 12 km at its widest point, connected to the land by an isthmus. The city was located opposite the entrance to the Gulf of Ambracia. Its name comes from the many limestone hills on the island. The Corinthian colony was founded between 650 and 625 BC. As the monetary types indicate, Leucas was a Corinthian colony. These staters were widely used for trade with Syracuse and Italy. The city was the second production center for foals just after Corinth, the metropolis. This coinage lasted until the destruction of Corinth in 306 BC. Leucas was still in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC the transmitting center of the powerful Acarnanian league, created after 196 BC. After the dislocation of the league in 167 BC, the city underwent an economic revival which lasted until the beginning of the 1st century BC..
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