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v34_0104 - MACEDONIA - CHALCIDIAN LEAGUE - OLYNTHUS Tétradrachme

MACEDONIA - CHALCIDIAN LEAGUE - OLYNTHUS Tétradrachme XF
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: 420-392 AC.
Mint name / Town : Olynthe
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,54 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier à l’usure régulière, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable avec une patine grise épaisse qui recouvre l’ensemble de la pièce. Portrait un peu fruste. Joli revers. Métal légèrement granuleux
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XXIV, n° 56 et de MONNAIES 29, n° 22

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à droite.

Reverse


Reverse description : Cithare.
Reverse legend : C-A-L/ KID/ EWN.
Reverse translation : (Des Chalcidique).

Commentary


Poids léger.

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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