v09_0105 - CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - RHODES Tétradrachme

AU/XF

MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 426.86 €
Estimate : 686.02 €
Realised price : 426.86 €

Type : Tétradrachme

Date: c. 201-190 AC.

Mint name / Town : Carie, Rhodes, monétaire Ainétor

Metal : silver

Diameter : 31 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 16,74 g.

Rarity : R1

Emission: 13e

Coments on the condition:

Flan large. Très beau portrait idéalisé / Revers sur un flan large et complet, légèrement tréflé

Catalogue references :

MP.2518 - Cop.762 - Aulock6645

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Buste imberbe d'Alexandre le Grand sous les traits d'Héraklès à droite, coiffé de la léonté.

Reverse

Reverse description : Zeus aétophore assis à gauche sur un trône avec dossier, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, les jambes croisées, tenant de la main droite un aigle et de la gauche, un sceptre long ; dans le champ inférieur à gauche, une rose.

Reverse legend : ALECANDROU// AINHTWR// RO.

Commentary

Même coin de droit que l'exemplaire de l'American Numismatic Society (Z. 120).

Historical background

CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - RHODES

(3rd - 2nd century BC)

Coinage in the name of Alexander III the Great type

Helios or Apollo was the main deity of Caria and Rhodes. The city, the federal capital, was founded in 408 BC, the date of the beginning of coinage. Rhodes was besieged by Demetrius Poliorcetes in 305 BC It was a failure. The Rhodians thanked the protective god by erecting a statue to him at the entrance to the port. Chares of Lindos built the Colossus of Rhodes between 292 and 284 BC It was one of the seven wonders of the world. 33 meters high, it was destroyed by an earthquake in 226 BC. An oracle forbade the Rhodians to rebuild it. On the reverse, the rose, in Greek rodion, is a linguistic symbol of the city and makes it possible to attribute this tetradrachm. It is possible that this coinage was made to pay a tribute to Antiochus III who did not use the Rhodian standard, which could explain the relatively short manufacturing time, Rhodes allied with Rome definitively emancipating itself from Seleucid tutelage, after 188 BC.

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