bgr_630376 - BITHYNIA - HERACLEA PONTICA Statère
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Type : Statère
Date: c. 305-285 AC.
Mint name / Town : Héraclée Pontique, Bithynie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,69 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Joli revers. Portrait à l’usure régulière. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe d’Héraklès à droite coiffée de léonté nouée sous le menton.
Reverse
Reverse description : Dionysos nu jusqu’à la ceinture assis sur un siège tenant un canthare de la main droite et un thyrse de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : HERAKLEWTAN/ (TE).
Reverse translation : (d’Héraclée).
Historical background
BITHYNIA - HERACLEA PONTICA
(5th - 4th century BC)
Héraclée Pontique (Heraclea Pontica) was an important city at the entrance of Pont-Euxin. It was founded like Kios, Byzantium and Chalcedon by Megarian settlers of Dorian origin, associated with Boeotians from Tanagra around 558 BC, according to E. Babelon. It was governed by tyrants throughout the 5th century before experiencing a period of democracy between 415 and 364 BC. Many tyrants succeeded one another from Clearchus to Lysimachus between 352 and 281 BC. Satyros ensured power between 352 and 345 BC before being assassinated. Timothy and Dionysos shared power between 345 and 337 BC, then Dionysos kept it alone between 337 and 305 BC When he died, Amastris, wife of Dionysos succeeded him on behalf of his two sons Clearchus the Younger and Oxyathres. The queen married Lysimachus. When the queen was assassinated at the instigation of her sons, Lysimachus had them executed and seized the region. Heraclea Ponticus experienced a great period of economic and commercial prosperity until the 3rd century BC.
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