Live auction - bgr_267389 - SICILY - MESSANA Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 1 800 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 19 April 2016 14:05:25 |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 461-450 AC.
Mint name / Town : Messine, Sicile
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25,50 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 16,83 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan extrêmement large, complet des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Droit de très joli style où toute la scène est visible. Revers présentant une petite faiblesse de frappe sur la légende. Joli revers. Usure régulière. Patine de collection ancienne, légèrement tachée
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Lanz 56, 13 mai 1991, n° 54 et de MONNAIES 51, n° 24
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Char tiré par une mule à droite, conduit par un aurige, tenant les rênes et le kentron, couronné par Niké marchant à droite au-dessus du bige ; à l'exergue, une feuille d'olivier ; grènetis circulaire perlé.
Reverse
Reverse description : Lièvre bondissant à droite ; sous le lièvre, un dauphin à droite ; grènetis ciruclaire perlé.
Reverse legend : MESSAN-I-ON.
Reverse translation : (de Messine).
Commentary
Même coin de droit que les exemplaires de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 358, pl. 13) et l’exemplaire du Staatliche Münzsammlung München (SNG. Münich, n° 650, pl. 18). Même coin de revers que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 359, pl. 13).
Historical background
SICILY - MESSANA
(461-450 BC)
Messina was founded by the Chalcidians around 725 BC under the name of Zancle, sickle, a name that comes from the shape of the port of the city. The Samians, fleeing the Persian yoke, seized the city in 493 BC and kept it for four years until Anaxilas, tyrant of Rhegion, chased them away and renamed the city, Messina. Anaxilas and his son were overthrown in 461 BC and Democracy established. Messina was destroyed by the Carthaginians in 396 BC. Messina, after regaining some prosperity during the second half of the 4th century BC, was once again ravaged by an invader, this time- here, Oscan mercenaries who destroyed the city and massacred its inhabitants in 288 BC. The new masters, the Mamertines, maintained their autonomy under the control of the Romans until the 1st century BC. Coinage ceased in 38 BC.
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