Live auction - bgr_687189 - CYCLADES - TINOS ISLAND - TINOS Tetradrachme
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| Estimate : | 3 000 € |
| Price : | 3 000 € |
| Maximum bid : | 3 000 € |
| End of the sale : | 07 September 2021 14:29:26 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Tetradrachme
Date: c. 200-180 AC.
Mint name / Town : Tenos, Cyclades
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,93 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Très joli portrait. Revers agréable. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée et cornue d’Apollon Karneios à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Poséidon assis à gauche tenant un trident et un dauphin ; devant, une grappe de raisin et un monogramme sous le siège.
Reverse legend : THNIWN
Reverse translation : (de Tenos).
Historical background
CYCLADES - TINOS ISLAND - TINOS
(4th - 2nd centuries BC)
Tenos is of very old creation. She is mentioned at the end of the Trojan War. Part of the Achaean fleet sank there. At the start of the Persian Wars. Tenos welcomed the inhabitants of Delos who fled from the Persians. Occupied in turn, his sailors changed sides during the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC.. -VS. for Athens. Tenos participated in the creation of the Delian league in 478 BC. -VS. remained faithful to Athens until its fall. It then passed under Spartan domination before joining the second Athenian thalassocracy. The city was looted despite everything by Alexandre de Pherai in 362 BC. -VS. This is when the new Tenos was refounded. Tenos was part of the Nesiotic maritime league founded by Antigone le Borgne in 307 BC.. -VS. When Rhodes after Cynoscephali founded a second maritime league, Tenos became its headquarters and religious center. Tenos suffered greatly from pirate incursions into the Cyclades during the Mithridatic Wars. Tenos remained loyal to Pompey and after the defeat of Pharsalus the island was entrusted to Rhodes. It regained its independence only after the defeat of Actium.
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