Live auction - bgr_409688 - AIOLIS - CYME Tétradrachme stéphanophore
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| Estimate : | 1 200 € |
| Price : | 750 € |
| Maximum bid : | 750 € |
| End of the sale : | 13 December 2016 14:13:02 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Tétradrachme stéphanophore
Date: c. 160 AC.
Mint name / Town : Cymé, Éolide
Metal : silver
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,72 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large bien centré des deux côtés. Très belle tête de Kymé. Joli revers, légèrement bouché sur la couronne. Patine grise superficielle avec des reflets dorés. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient certainement du trésor de Kirikhan (Cilicie), CH 1, n° 87A enfoui vers 140 avant J.-C. qui contenait plus de 5.000 pièces dont 213 tétradrachmes de Cyme. Il a été acquis en juin 1986 et provient d’Arts et Placements (J.-P. Kimmel)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de la nymphe Kymé diadémée à droite, les cheveux relevés et coiffés en petit chignon.
Reverse
Reverse description : Cheval au pas à droite, levant l'antérieur gauche au-dessus d'une coupe à une anse ; le tout dans une couronne de laurier.
Reverse legend : KUMAIWN// KALLIAS.
Reverse translation : (de Cymé/ Kallias).
Commentary
Magistrat Kallias.
Historical background
AIOLIS - CYME
(2nd century BC)
Cymé, today Sandakli, one of the most important cities of the Aeolian coast, was located south of Myrhina. It had a port and was founded by Locrians. She herself is at the origin of the foundation of Side in Pamphylia and of Cumae in Campania. It is the homeland of Hesiod. Stephanophoric coinage was the subject of a study by JM Oakley, Wreathed Tetradrachms of Kymé published by the ANS. in MN.27, (1982) which lists several hundred specimens, the majority of which come from the great find of Cilicia discovered in 1973 CH. I and which contained more than five thousand tetradrachms.
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