Live auction - bgr_511595 - IONIA - IONIAN ISLANDS - CHIOS Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 500 € |
| Price : | 340 € |
| Maximum bid : | 350 € |
| End of the sale : | 29 October 2019 14:21:38 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 270-220 AC.
Mint name / Town : Chios, Ionie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,87 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale bien centré. Tête massive d’Héraklès. Très joli revers de style fin, de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine de collection ancienne, légèrement granuleuse au droit
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection B. Odaert
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe d’Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore, nu jusqu’à la ceinture assis à gauche, les jambes croisées sur un siège ornementé sans dossier, tenant un aigle de la main droite tendue et un sceptre long de la main gauche ; dans le champ à gauche, une amphore surmontant un monogramme.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU// (AR)
Commentary
Nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente pour ce type à cause de l’état de conservation du droit. Semble inédit et non recensé. Manque aux ouvrages de référence. Ce type avec l’amphore pourrait aussi émaner de l’atelier de Myrhina (MP. 1648-1649) mais resterait inédit.
Historical background
IONIA - IONIAN ISLANDS - CHIOS
(3rd - 1st century BC)
The island and town of Chios was located opposite the city of Eritrea. Coinage began in the middle of the 6th century BC and lasted, for the archaic style, until the middle of the 4th century BC. Chios was a famous port and commercial centre. The city seems to have participated in the revolt of Ionia against the Persian yoke at the beginning of the 5th century BC (500-494 AC.), (Herodotus VI. 26). A decade later, she sends a fleet of seventeen ships to Xerxes who is about to invade Greece (Herodotus, VII. 95). The island seems to have belonged to the league of Delos after 477 BC. The city is the ally of Athens. Chios left the alliance in 412 BC. From the 3rd century, Chios lost its autonomy, which it only regained after the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC. The city was ravaged by Mithridates VI du Pont in 86 for having supported the Romans. Sulla restored the city in 84 BC and declared it an ally of Rome.
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