Live auction - bgr_963432 - MACEDONIA - CHALCIDIAN LEAGUE - OLYNTHUS Tétradrachme
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Live starting : Type : Tétradrachme
Date: 420-392 AC.
Mint name / Town : Olynthe, Macédoine
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,51 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Très belle lyre, finement détaillée. Joli portrait d’Apollon. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse description : Lyre à sept cordes dans les restes d’un carré creux.
Reverse legend : C-A-L/ KID/ EWN.
Reverse translation : (de Chalcidique).
Commentary
Notre type avec la tête à gauche semble beaucoup plus rare et appartient au groupe F du classement de Robinson-Clement. Très belle tête d’Apollon, empreinte de noblesse avec un style très particulier. Lyre de toute beauté, permettant d’admirer toutes les finesses de l’instrument (il ne lui manque que le son !).
Historical background
MACEDONIA - CHALCIDIAN LEAGUE - OLYNTHUS
(432-348 BC)
In 433 BC, Perdiccas II, King of Macedonia raised Olynthe and made it the capital of what was to become the Chalcidic League in order to thwart the aims of Athens in the region. Brasidas at the head of the Lacedaemonian fleet rallied the region against the hegemony of Athens, after the defection of Amphipolis. The Peace of Nicias in 421 BC guaranteed the freedom of the cities of Chalkidiki, including Olynthus, which then experienced an intense period of economic development. Olynthe fell under Spartan domination in 379 BC. The city had to face the Macedonian ambitions of Philip II. Olynthus was taken and destroyed by Philip II in 347 BC and its population enslaved.
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