v51_0220 - CARIA - KNIDOS Drachme
MONNAIES 51 (2011)
Starting price : 850.00 €
Estimate : 1 400.00 €
Realised price : 1 200.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 1 200.00 €
Starting price : 850.00 €
Estimate : 1 400.00 €
Realised price : 1 200.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 1 200.00 €
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 465-449 AC.
Mint name / Town : Carie, Cnide
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,17 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, légèrement décentré au revers. Magnifique protomé de lion large et massif. Élégante tête d’Aphrodite de très beau style. Magnifique patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Weil, 9 mars 1985, n° 33
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Protomé de lion à droite, la gueule ouverte, la langue pendante.
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête diadémée d’Aphrodite à droite, les cheveux longs ; le tout dans un carré creux.
Reverse legend : [K-N]-I
Reverse translation : (de Cnide).
Commentary
Mêmes coins que les exemplaires de la collection Pozzi (P., n° 2582, pl. LXXVI) et de la collection Lockett (SNG. Lockett, n° 2884, pl. L).
Historical background
CARIA - KNIDOS
(6th - 5th century 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, aided by the satrap Pharnabazus, won a great naval victory over Lysander's Spartan fleet. 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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