Live auction - bgr_555005 - BITHYNIA - BITHYNIAN KINGDOM - PRUSIAS II Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 2 000 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 03 December 2019 14:30:00 |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 183-149 AC.
Mint name / Town : Bithynie, Nicomédie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,82 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et bien centré. Beau portrait de Prusias II. Fine usure superficielle. Patine grise de collection
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant du stock de Vigne (1978)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue, diadémée et ailée du roi Prusias II à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus Stratios nu jusqu’à la ceinture, barbu debout à gauche, tenant un sceptre long de main gauche et couronnant le nom de Prusias de la main droite ; dans le champ à gauche, un petit aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre et au-dessous, un monogramme.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ PROUSIOU/ (ME).
Reverse translation : (du roi Prusias).
Historical background
BITHYNIA - BITHYNIAN KINGDOM - PRUSIAS II
(185-149 BC)
Prusias II is the son of Prusias I (228-185 BC), king of Bithynia and the grandson of Philip V of Macedonia by his mother. Hannibal had taken refuge in Nicomedia with his father. For fear of being delivered to the Romans by Prusias II, the Carthaginian poisoned himself in 183 BC. ). Prusias II had to give up part of his territory to the King of Pergamon. He tried to ally himself with the Romans and, in the face of such cowardice, was finally assassinated in the temple of Zeus in Nicomedia by the mob.
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