Live auction - bgr_406506 - IONIA - PHOKAIA Hecté
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| Estimate : | 950 € |
| Price : | 670 € |
| Maximum bid : | 670 € |
| End of the sale : | 27 September 2016 14:22:39 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Hecté
Date: c. 396 AC.
Mint name / Town : Phocée, Ionie
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 10,5 mm
Weight : 2,56 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, parfaitement centré sur un flan laissant apparaître le petit phoque sous le cou. Carré creux bouché au revers. Très jolie patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’Hubert Lanz et de la collection Laurent F
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de femme à gauche, les cheveux enroulés et retenus par un double bandeau ; sous le cou, un petit phoque.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Carré creux quadripartite.
Commentary
L’électrum est un alliage d’or et d’argent. Carré creux particulier. Un seul exemplaire recensé, celui de la vente Cahn 84, 1933, n° 367.
Historical background
IONIA - PHOKAIA
(6th - 4th century BC)
Phocaea was located seventy kilometers northwest of Smyrna on the coast, on the border of Aeolid, opposite the peninsula of Ionia. Phocaea was one of the first cities in Asia Minor to mint coins in the second half of the 7th century or the first half of the 6th century BC. The city, whose eponymous symbol was the seal, minted a large electrum mint. The Phocaic stallion shone throughout the Eastern Mediterranean. The city fell under Persian domination in 545 BC After the revolt of Ionia in 499 BC and its terrible repression five years later, Phocaea lost much of its importance. At the end of the 5th century BC it contracted with Mytilene, located in the island of Lesbos, a monetary alliance which was to last until the arrival of Alexander the Great in Asia Minor..
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