E-auction 10-2225 - bgr_233548 - IONIA - IONIAN ISLANDS - CHIOS Statère ou didrachme
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| Estimate : | 480 € |
| Price : | 125 € |
| Maximum bid : | 150 € |
| End of the sale : | 17 June 2013 17:01:00 |
| bidders : | 10 bidders |
Type : Statère ou didrachme
Date: c. 480-460 AC.
Mint name / Town : Ionie, Chios
Metal : silver
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : - h.
Weight : 7,77 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan globulaire bien centré. Usure importante, mais sujet parfaitement identifiable. Très beau carré creux au revers. Patine gris foncé de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de Forum Antiquitarum, 1976
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Sphinx assis à gauche, les ailes repliées ; devant, dans le champ à gauche, une amphore.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Carré creux quadripartite très profond.
Commentary
Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent paraître les ouvrages généraux.
Historical background
IONIA - IONIAN ISLANDS - CHIOS
(6th - 5th 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 taken part 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 preparing 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 Mithradates VI du Pont in 86 for having supported the Romans. Sulla restored the city and 84 and declared it an ally of Rome.
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