bgr_275591 - MACEDONIA - CHALCIDIAN LEAGUE - OLYNTHUS Tetrobole
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 280.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 280.00 €
Type : Tetrobole
Date: 379-348 AC.
Mint name / Town : Olynthe, Macédoine
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 2,05 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier et ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Hirsch de février 1988
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 Chalcidiens).
Commentary
Poids léger. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 525).
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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