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E-auction 56-25023 - bga_209363 - MASSALIA - MARSEILLE Petit bronze au taureau (hémiobole ?)

MASSALIA - MARSEILLE Petit bronze au taureau (hémiobole ?) AU/AU
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Estimate : 140 €
Price : 51 €
Maximum bid : 53 €
End of the sale : 12 May 2014 15:13:00
bidders : 8 bidders
Type : Petit bronze au taureau (hémiobole ?)
Date: c. 130-121 AC.
Mint name / Town : Marseille (13)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 10,50 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,72 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Beau petit bronze sur un flan très court et très épais (3,2 mm) mais pourtant centré des deux côtés. Patine vert antique, lisse et brillante
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection A.C.G.

Obverse


Obverse legend : LETTRE GRECQUES LO SOUS LE MENTON.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d'Apollon à droite, les cheveux longs.

Reverse


Reverse description : Taureau cornupète chargeant à droite, la légende à l’exergue et un motif proche de l'épi au-dessus du taureau.
Reverse legend : MA[SSA].

Commentary


Droit de qualité avec un beau portrait de style classique et deux lettres grecques LO en bord de flan devant le cou. Au revers le taureau chargeant est complet, mais la légende MASSA est en bord de flan et l’exergue est complètement hors flan mais les lettres APT peuvent être restituées ; avec ce droit, ce petit bronze correspondrait au 66/1 des Monnaies hellénistiques de Marseille. Les deux seuls exemplaires recensés sont le BN 1699 et le 38/1 de Marseille.
Aucun des petits bronzes repris dans le LATTARA ne permet de préciser le classement de notre monnaie ; tous les exemplaires publiés étant dans un piètre état !.

Historical background


MASSALIA - MARSEILLE

(5th - 1st century BC)

Marseille, the "Massalia" of the Greeks, founded by the Phocaeans in 600 BC. -VS. , was born from the desire of the Greeks to promote trading posts in order to compete with the Carthaginians and the Etruscans for the domination of the western Mediterranean. Marseille is absolutely not a Celtic or Gallic creation and belongs to the Greek world. Between the 5th and 1st centuries BC, Marseille and its hinterland experienced unprecedented development. The rise of Rome from the First Punic War (268-241 BC). -VS. ), and the strategic choice of Marseilles, which plays Rome against Carthage, will restore, in the second half of the third century BC, a preponderant role to Massalia in the international trade of the western Mediterranean.. The second century BC marks the decline of the Phocaean city. Privileged ally of the Romans, Marseille has, thanks to them, succeeded in imposing its power in the Marseille hinterland. The Romans, by stopping the Cimbri and the Teutons, saved southern Gaul from invasions. From 118 BC. -VS. , the situation changes and the Provincia becomes a Roman province. Marseille merchants compete with Roman traders in Spain, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily. Nevertheless, they remain the allies of the Romans until the 1st century BC.. This is the beginning of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey in 49 BC.. -VS. which will be fatal to the city. Marseille did not know how to choose between the two protagonists. Caesar besieged and took the city, not being able to allow his lines of communication between Gaul and Italy to be cut off.. Marseille's fleet was still too large to fall into the hands of his mortal enemy, Pompey. Conquered, the city was nevertheless not plundered and remained an important port at the beginning of the Roman domination. Remaining Hellenic, it was never really assimilated to Roman Gaul and kept a sort of independent status, mixed with cosmopolitanism where all religions crossed paths with all peoples for the greater benefit of Marseille trade..

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