Live auction - bgr_523679 - ELYMAIS - ELYMAIS KINGDOM - KAMNASKIRES IV Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 2 000 € |
| Price : | 970 € |
| Maximum bid : | 975 € |
| End of the sale : | 04 June 2019 14:37:34 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 255
Mint name / Town : Suse, Susiane
Metal : silver
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 15,01 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier bien centré avec le grènetis visible au droit. Beau buste du roi avec une contremarque derrière la tête. Joli revers avec une frappe un peu brouillée et la trace de la contremarque du droit. Patine grise superficielle. A été nettoyée anciennement
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et barbu, drapé et cuirassé de Kamnaskires IV à gauche ; derrière le buste une petite contremarque recouvrant un protomè de cheval à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus nicéphore, nu jusqu’à la ceinture assis sur un trône à gauche, tenant une petite Niké de la main droite tendue et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : tIASILEWS/ KAMNASKIROU - TOU [eg] bASILEWS// KAMNASKIROU/ ENS
Reverse translation : (du roi Kamnaskires .
Commentary
Contremarque rectangulaire derrière le buste du roi avec une Niké debout à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche. Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous proposons un exemplaire à la vente.
Historical background
ELYMAIS - ELYMAIS KINGDOM - KAMNASKIRES IV
(c. 63/62 - 54/53 BC)
This small kingdom, located between Babylonia and Persis in the region of Susa. He managed to maintain his independence from his powerful Arsacid neighbors. Kamnaskires IV, of whom we know practically nothing, seems to have reigned in the first half of the first century BC when Pompey took over the East and made Syria a Roman province. The king seems to have sought the Roman alliance and the friendship of Pompey. Kamnaskires disappears when Crassus is killed at the Battle of Carrhes in 53 BC, defeated by General Suréna and King Parthia Orodes II (57-38 BC).
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