Live auction - bgr_356261 - THRACE - BYZANTION Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 2 800 € |
| Price : | 1 800 € |
| Maximum bid : | 1 800 € |
| End of the sale : | 30 June 2015 14:06:07 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 220-219 AC.
Mint name / Town : Byzance, Thrace
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,77 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec une petit manque de métal à 9 heures au droit. Belle tête de Déméter au droit. Revers finement détaillé, de frappe un peu molle. Patine grise superficielle avec des reflets dorés avec un argent légèrement corné
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente CNG, 75, n° 100 et de la collection B. Odaert
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête voilée de Déméter à droite, coiffée d’une couronne d’épis.
Reverse
Reverse description : Poséidon nu jusqu’à la ceinture assis à droite sur un rocher, tenant un aplustre de la main droite tendue et un trident transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : EPI AQENAIWN/ (KK) - (UP).
Reverse translation : (du magistrat Athénaion/ Byzance).
Commentary
Semble de mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la vente Hirsch 275, n° 3381.
Historical background
THRACE - BYZANTION
(3rd - 2nd century BC)
Byzantium, the future Constantinople and then Istanbul, was founded in 657 BC by Megarian settlers from central Greece. The city was besieged by Philip II of Macedonia in 340/339 BC and found itself in the share of Lysimachus during the division of the empire of Alexander. After Couroupédion, it regained its independence. Its location at the entrance to the Black Sea at the mouth of the Propontis as well as its rich fertile plains on the coast ensured great prosperity. The change of monetary standard in 357 BC seems to indicate a modification of the commercial circuits of the city which is then oriented more towards the eastern Mediterranean and Rhodes than towards the Black Sea where the Persian standard was dominant. When the city obtained its autonomy at the beginning of the 3rd century, it resumed, according to the work of Henri Seyrig, the typology of the Lysimaques which will be minted in the city for more than 150 years..
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