v28_0052 - CRETE - GORTYNA Drachme
MONNAIES 28 (2007)
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 150-67 AC.
Mint name / Town : Gortyne
Metal : silver
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,24 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier. Frappe légèrement tréflée au droit. Revers bien venu à la frappe avec l’inscription complète. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue et diadémée de Zeus ou de Minos à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Héro (Gortys) nu debout à gauche, tourné de face, tenant de la main droite un bouclier et de la gauche, une javeline transversale.
Reverse legend : GORTUNI/WN/ A
Reverse translation : (de Gortyne).
Commentary
Un seul exemplaire signalé dans l’ouvrage de Svoronos, Numismatique de la Crète ancienne, celui du musée de Vienne.
Historical background
CRETE - GORTYNA
(2nd - 1st century BC)
Gortyn, the second city of Crete, is in the center of the fertile Mesara plain. Its coinage begins around 450 BC. It alludes to the abduction of Europa by Zeus, transformed in this case into a bull to escape the jealousy of Hera and conquer the nymph of which he had, among other , Minos. After a brilliant period of economic development in the 4th and 3rd centuries, the island of Crete fell under Lagide influence. Economic stake for two centuries in the Eastern Mediterranean, victim of acts of piracy, after a long period of political decadence, Gortyne was taken by the Romans during the invasion of Crete in 67-66 BC.
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