Live auction - bgr_393740 - CRETE - GORTYNA Drachme
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| Estimate : | 950 € |
| Price : | 491 € |
| Maximum bid : | 500 € |
| End of the sale : | 28 June 2016 14:22:50 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 360-322
Mint name / Town : Gortyne, Crète
Metal : silver
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,95 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Droit bien venu à la frappe. Usure plus importante au revers avec un coup dans la chevelure de la nymphe Europa. Patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient d’une vente Cahn dans les années 1930
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête et cou de taureau à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Tête de la nymphe Europa à droite, les cheveux retenus dans un sphendone dans les reste d’un carré creux.
Historical background
CRETE - GORTYNA
(4th 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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