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v43_0204 - CARIA - KNIDOS Drachme

CARIA - KNIDOS Drachme XF
MONNAIES 43 (2010)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
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Type : Drachme
Date: c. 310-250 AC.
Mint name / Town : Cnide
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,71 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Beau portrait rude d’Aphrodite. Très beau mufle de lion au revers. A été nettoyé anciennement
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Aphrodite Euploia à droite, les cheveux relevés en arrière et retenus par un sphendone.
Obverse legend : (TE)

Reverse


Reverse description : Protomé de lion à droite, la gueule ouverte, la langue pendante.
Reverse legend : [KNI]// TELEAS
Reverse translation : (de Cnide/ Teleas).

Commentary


Poids léger.

Historical background


CARIA - KNIDOS

(300-190 BC)

Knidos was a very old city, a great economic, political and cultural centre. In 476 BC it entered the Attico-Delian league and remained there until 412 BC, after the Athenian defeat in Sicily. The coinage of Cnidus seems to resume at the beginning of the 4th century. It was off Cnidus, in 394 BC, that the Athenian Conon, helped by the satrap Pharnabaze, won a great naval victory over the Spartan fleet of Lysander. Aphrodite, who was worshiped at Cnidus, is believed to have inspired Conon. Around 350 BC, Praxiteles executed at the request of the Cnidians a statue of Aphrodite which appears on the coinage until the Hellenistic period, more precisely until the battle of Magnesia in 189 BC..

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