Live auction - bgr_439783 - ARGOLIS - ARGOS Hémidrachme ou triobole
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| Estimate : | 280 € |
| Price : | 175 € |
| Maximum bid : | 300 € |
| End of the sale : | 01 August 2017 14:10:20 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Hémidrachme ou triobole
Date: c. 85-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Argos, monétaire Xénophilos
Metal : silver
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 2,30 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un fln ovale bien centré. Joli droit. Petite faiblesse de frappe en fin de légende de revers. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets mordorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Protomé de loup à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : A dans un carré creux ; au-dessous, tête radiée d’Hélios de face.
Reverse legend : XE-NO/F-I/L-[OU].
Commentary
Poids léger.
Historical background
ARGOLIS - ARGOS
(3rd - 1st century BC)
Argos according to mythology had been one of the main cities of the kingdom of Agamemnon with Mycenae. Argos, very soon found itself the capital of Dorian amphictyonia. Phidion of Argos is described as one of the creators of Aegina coinage. The city of Argos dedicated a special cult to the solar Apollo, of which the wolf is one of the symbols and which the Argives chose for their coins, the manufacture of which began at the beginning of the 5th century BC.. -VS. The Argives opposed the Lacedaemonians. They remained neutral during the Persian invasion of Xerxes in 480 BC.. -VS. They captured Mycenae in 468 BC. -VS. Neutral at the start of the Peloponnesian War, Argos joined the Athenian alliance after the Peace of Nicias in 421 BC. -VS. Argos was defeated at Mantinea in 418 BC. -VS. and once again suffered the Spartan yoke. In 362, Argos allied with the Thebans, always against Sparta before falling under the protection of Philip II of Macedonia. After Alexander's death and the Lamiac War of 322 BC. -VS. , Argos entered the Achaean league in 280 BC. -VS. The league was dissolved in 146 BC. -VS. after the capture of Corinth by the Romans.
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