Live auction - bgr_999820 - MACEDONIA - LETE Statère
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Live starting : Type : Statère
Date: c. 500-480 AC.
Mint name / Town : Lete, Macédoine
Metal : silver
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Weight : 9,47 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée à l’usure régulière. Jolie représentation du droit. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Satyre ithyphallique, debout à droite, saisissant la main d’un nymphe fuyant à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Carré creux quadripartite divisé en quatre triangles par diagonales.
Commentary
L’attribution à Lete en Macédoine est possible, mais pas certaine. J.-N. Svoronos attribuait ces monnaies aux Sirinopéoniens.
Historical background
MACEDONIA - LETE
(6th - 5th century BC).
Lete was in the territory of the Amphaxitis above Therma (Thessalonica), but the city was unimportant in ancient times and it is doubtful that it could have minted. However the city was placed on the strategic road which linked Pangea to the mines of the hinterland..
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