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v38_0188 - CRETE - GORTYNA Statère

CRETE - GORTYNA Statère VF/XF
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 650.00 €
Estimate : 950.00 €
Realised price : 880.00 €
Number of bids : 6
Maximum bid : 1 120.00 €
Type : Statère
Date: c. 360-322
Mint name / Town : Gortyne
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 11,20 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier, légèrement décentré au revers. Usure importante au droit, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Joli revers de style fin. Nettoyé anciennement, mais recouvert d’une fine patine superficielle

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Europe à demi nue assise sur un arbre, la main droite appuyée sur une branche, le bras soutenant sa tête.

Reverse


Reverse description : Taureau debout à droite, détournant la tête à gauche.
Reverse legend : GORTUNIWN
Reverse translation : (de Gortyne).

Commentary


Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la collection Lewis de Cambridge (Lewis 134) repris dans l’ouvrage de G. Le Rider, pl. XV, n° 10 surfrappé sur un statère de Cyrénaïque (Barcé ?).

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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