v51_0046 - THRACE - ABDERA Triobole
MONNAIES 51 (2011)
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 645.00 €
Number of bids : 8
Maximum bid : 657.00 €
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 645.00 €
Number of bids : 8
Maximum bid : 657.00 €
Type : Triobole
Date: c. 386/385 - 375 AC.
Mint name / Town : Thrace, Abdère
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 2,84 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 113e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés, un peu court au revers sur le nom du magistrat. Très beau droit de style fin où tous les détails du griffon sont visibles. Joli revers de style fin avec une très belle tête de Dionysos. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Gorny 55, 14 mai 1991, n° 101
Obverse
Obverse description : Griffon bondissant à gauche ; petite massue posée horizontalement à gauche au-dessus.
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête de Dionysos à gauche, les cheveux longs tombant sur la nuque, ornés d’une couronne de vigne ; le tout dans un carré linéaire placé dans les restes d’un carré creux.
Reverse legend : MOL-PA-GOR-HZ
Reverse translation : (Molpagorès).
Commentary
Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du musée de Sofia (May 418a, pl. 20). Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du Danish National Museum (SNG. cop., n° 332, pl. 7) ; May donne par erreur le n°333 en référence.
Historical background
THRACE - ABDERA
(5th - 4th century BC)
Abdera was founded in 656 BC.. -VS. on the southern coast of Thrace, not far from the mouth of the Nestos (Herodotus I, 168) by colonists coming from Clazomenes (Ionia). The new city was abandoned and it was only in 543 BC. -VS. that part of the inhabitants of Teos (Ionia), fleeing the Persian yoke, came to settle permanently in Abdera. The city then experienced great political and economic development.. The choice of the griffin as a monetary type in Abdera comes from its metropolis Teos. The city served as the headquarters of Xerxes during the Persian Wars. The city remained the main port under Persian domination until Cimon's victory at the mouth of the Eurymedon in 465 BC.. -VS. It then experienced a period of intense activity under the authority of the Delio-Athenian league to which it joined in 454 BC.. -VS. The city was besieged and taken by Thrasybulus, an Athenian general in 410 or 408 BC.. -VS. Having found freedom after the fall of Athens, she nevertheless had to appeal to her in 377 BC.. -VS. when the Triballes threatened its independence. It was Chabrias, an Athenian general who freed it. From 350 BC. -VS. , it entered the Macedonian orbit and then lost its commercial and strategic importance.
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