v59_0147 - CYRENAICA - CYRENE - SATRAP PTOLEMY Obole

CYRENAICA - CYRENE - SATRAP PTOLEMY Obole AU

MONNAIES 59 (2013)
Starting price : 850.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
Realised price : 850.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 1 650.00 €

Type : Obole

Date: 308-305 AC.

Mint name / Town : Cyrène, Cyrénaïque

Metal : gold

Diameter : 8 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 0,54 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de Zeus Ammon avec un infime petit coup sur le nez. Foudre de style fin

Catalogue references :

BMC.218 - GC.614 (200£) - B.1872 pl. CCLXVI/5 - Naville217 pl. VI

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire a été acquis en 2000 et provient de la collection du docteur Thierry de Craeker

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête barbue et cornue de Zeus-Ammon à droite ; grènetis linéaire.

Reverse

Reverse description : Foudre ailé vertical entre deux étoiles à huit rais centrées d’un globule.

Commentary

Poids léger comme les deux exemplaires recensés pour ce type. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la collection Lucien Naville (Naville 217a, pl. VI).

Historical background

CYRENAICA - CYRENE - SATRAP PTOLEMY

(323-306 BC)

Cyrene, a port city located in Cyrenaica, was founded by Dorian settlers from the island of Thera around 630 BC. They were headed by Battus, the mythical ancestor of the Battides who reigned over Cyrene for two centuries. The city was famous for the cultivation and harvesting of silphium, one of the most sought-after medicinal plants of antiquity, now extinct. The city, although independent, was in Egyptian orbit. When Alexander captured Egypt in 332/331 BC, he signed a peace treaty with Cyrene guaranteeing him relative autonomy. After the death of the conqueror, the region of Cyrene fell under Lagid rule. In 322 BC, the Cyreneans appealed to Ptolemy to rid them of the tyrant Tibron. The satrap sent his general Ophellas who conquered the country, put the tyrant to death and installed himself as a strategist in Cyrene. Ophellas was in turn overthrown in 313 BC. Ptolemy recovered Cyrene in 308 BC and installed his son-in-law Magas there (308-277 AC.).

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