Live auction - bgr_521901 - DANUBIAN CELTS - IMITATIONS OF THE TETRADRACHMS OF ALEXANDER III AND HIS SUCCESSORS Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 550 € |
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| End of the sale : | 05 March 2019 14:08:00 |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. IIe siècle AC.
Mint name / Town : Atelier incertain
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 16,03 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Belle tête d’Héraklès stylisée. Joli revers de style fin, de frappe un peu molle. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Philippe Saive (Metz)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d’Héraklès à droite avec une belle léonté.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LÉGENDE ILLISIBLE.
Reverse description : Zeus assis à gauche, tenant un aigle de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche ; monogramme dans le champ à gauche et sous le trône.
Commentary
Imitation du type de Philippe III. Ce tétradrachme est parmi les premières imitations des Celtes de l’Est ; le droit sera rapidement stylisé et dégénéré jusqu’à présenter une masse informe.
Historical background
DANUBIAN CELTS - IMITATIONS OF THE TETRADRACHMS OF ALEXANDER III AND HIS SUCCESSORS
(2nd - 1st century BC)
Under this title are generally grouped all the coinages which do not have a precise attribution. Sometimes the term "Eastern Celts" is offered. After the Celts plundered Delphi and spread through Greece and Asia Minor, they seized a significant amount of spoils, thanks to their plunder. The Hellenistic kings, Diadoques or Epigoni used them as mercenaries in their armies where the average salary was normally one gold stater corresponding to five Attic tetradrachms or twenty Attic drachms. The prototypes representing the head of Heracles with the seated Zeus on the reverse were widely copied and imitated throughout Pontus Euxin, northern Macedonia and Thrace. The final phase of the coinage occurs at the end of the 2nd century or the beginning of the first century BC where there are no traces of the obverse and the reverse as well as legends more than a domed face of a coin. practically smooth on both sides.
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