Live auction - bgr_510693 - THRACE - ABDERA Triobole
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| Estimate : | 520 € |
| Price : | 360 € |
| Maximum bid : | 400 € |
| End of the sale : | 04 December 2018 14:03:39 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Triobole
Date: c. 388-387 AC.
Mint name / Town : Abdère, Thrace
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 2,81 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, légèrement décentré au droit, bien centré au revers. Joli droit. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Griffon bondissant à gauche, les pattes arrières reposant sur un chapiteau ionique.
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête laurée de Mercure à gauche, coiffé du pétase, noué sous cou ; un kyrekeion (caducée) devant le visage ; le tout dans un carré linéaire avec les restes d’un carré creux.
Reverse legend : EPI HROFANEOS.
Reverse translation : (du magistrat Érophaneos).
Commentary
Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du British Museum (BMC., p. 71, n° 41) (May, n° 279, pl. XV, A/ 208). Même coin de revers que l’exemplaire de la collection Weber n° 2381 (May, n° 280, pl. XV, R/ 235).
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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