v47_0120 - CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - COS Didrachme

CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - COS Didrachme AU

MONNAIES 47 (2011)
Starting price : 850.00 €
Estimate : 1 300.00 €
Realised price : 910.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 1 400.00 €

Type : Didrachme

Date: c. 340

Mint name / Town : Carie, Cos

Metal : silver

Diameter : 19,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 6,98 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait d’Héraklès. Très beau portrait de Déméter, particulier. Jolie patine grise avec des reflets dorés

Catalogue references :

BMC.- - Cop.- - Aulock- - B. traité- - GC.- - EKC.287

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de la collection A. A. S. Cet exemplaire provient très certainement du trésor de Pixodare

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête d’Héraklès barbue à droite, coiffée de la léonté.

Reverse

Reverse description : Tête féminine voilée à gauche (Déméter).

Reverse legend : AGE/ KWION

Reverse translation : (de Cos).

Commentary

Même coins que l’exemplaire de la collection Keckman (SNG. Keckman, n° 287) provenant du “Pixodarus Hoard”.

Historical background

CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - COS

(4th century BC)

Cos was originally a Dorian colony from Epidaurus which brought the cult of Asklepios to the island. It is the homeland of Hippocrates, the founder of medicine. Cos was part of the League of Delos and paid tribute to Athens. The founding of a new symmachic capital in 366 BC revived the economic activity which was to last until the Macedonian conquest. Rival of Rhodes and Halicarnassus, the island lost its importance after 333 BC After the death of Alexander the Great, it fell under the domination of Ptolemy. The latter stayed on the island in 309 BC with his wife Berenice and it was there that Ptolemy II Philadelphus was born..

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