Live auction - bga_700156 - DANUBIAN CELTS - IMITATIONS OF THE TETRADRACHMS OF PHILIP II AND HIS SUCCESSORS Tétradrachme au cavalier, imitation de Philippe II
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| Estimate : | 600 € |
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| End of the sale : | 25 January 2022 16:08:17 |
Type : Tétradrachme au cavalier, imitation de Philippe II
Date: (IIIe siècle avant J.-C.)
Mint name / Town : Atelier indéterminé
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 13,98 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur petit flan irrégulier bien centré à l’usure plus marquée au revers qu’au droit. Belle tête encore hellénisée de Zeus. Début de stylisation au revers. Patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à droite ; grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LÉGENDE CORROMPUE.
Reverse description : Cavalier au pas à droite, tenant une palme de la main droite ; le cheval lève l'antérieur à droite ; entre les jambes, les restes d’une branche.
Reverse legend : (HS).
Commentary
Ce type qui n’est pas repris dans Pink ou par Kostial, Kelten im Osten, doit être précoce et appartient aux premières imitations celtiques du monnayage de Philippe II de Macédoine. Si la légende n’est plus identifiable, deux petites lettres, typiquement grecques,sont placées verticalement sous le cheval. D’autre part, la tête du cavalier fait plutôt penser aux premières émissions du même monnayage avec le cavalier coiffé de la kausia.
Historical background
DANUBIAN CELTS - IMITATIONS OF THE TETRADRACHMS OF PHILIP II AND HIS SUCCESSORS
(3rd-1st century BC)
Under this title are generally grouped all the coinages that do not have a precise attribution. Sometimes the term "Eastern Celts" is offered. After the Celts plundered Delphi and spread through Greece and Asia Minor, they seized a significant amount of spoils, thanks to their plunder. The Hellenistic kings, Diadoques or Epigones, used them as mercenaries in their armies where the average salary was normally one stater of gold corresponding to five tetradrachms of Attic standard or twenty drachms. The prototypes which represented the head of Zeus with a horseman were widely copied and imitated throughout the Balkans, northern Macedonia and Thrace. The final phase of the coinage occurs at the end of the 2nd century or the beginning of the first century BC where there are no traces of the obverse and the reverse as well as legends more than a domed face of a coin. practically smooth on both sides.
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