Live auction - bga_828008 - DANUBIAN CELTS - IMITATIONS OF THE TETRADRACHMS OF PHILIP II AND HIS SUCCESSORS Tétradrachme “au monogramme d’Audoléon”
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| Estimate : | 800 € |
| Price : | 670 € |
| Maximum bid : | 690 € |
| End of the sale : | 05 September 2023 15:39:15 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Tétradrachme “au monogramme d’Audoléon”
Date: c. IIIe-IIer siècles AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 13,72 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie parfaitement centrée des deux côtés. Une très belle tête au droit, très bien venue à la frappe. Fine usure régulière. Revers agréable et complet. Patine grise
Predigree :
Exemplaire sous coque NGC Ch VF* (Strike 5/5, Surface 5/5). Vente PEUS 314 (30 octobre 1985) lot n°11 ; ELSEN et Fils 125 (13 juin 2015) lot n°244
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbare, laurée et barbue de Zeus à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cavalier très stylisé, sur un cheval plus réaliste ; une volute devant le poitrail, une esse bouletée sous la jambe gauche du cheval et un fleuron sous le ventre.
Commentary
Sur ce type, la couronne de laurier est très importante d'où l'appellation de "Verkehrten Lorbeerkranz". Elle est de plus perlée aux extrémités, visible sur notre exemplaire au-dessus du front. Au revers, outre le monogramme, nous avons deux symboles énigmatiques, l'esse bouletée entre les antérieurs du cheval et la volute devant le poitrail.
Historical background
DANUBIAN CELTS - IMITATIONS OF THE TETRADRACHMS OF PHILIP II AND HIS SUCCESSORS
(3rd-1st century BC)
Under this title are generally grouped all the coinages that 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 Epigones, used them as mercenaries in their armies where the average salary was normally one stater of gold corresponding to five tetradrachms of Attic standard or twenty drachms. The prototypes which represented the head of Zeus with a horseman were widely copied and imitated throughout the Balkans, 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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