bga_309122 - DANUBIAN CELTS - IMITATIONS OF THE TETRADRACHMS OF PHILIP II AND HIS SUCCESSORS Tétradrachme “au W”
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Price : 450.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme “au W”
Date: c. IIe-Ier siècles AC.
Mint name / Town : Atelier indéterminé
Metal : silver
Diameter : 23,50 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 13,13 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Très belle tête de Zeus au droite. Revers stylisé mais encore de bonne facture. Très jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire n° 43 de MONNAIES 59
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue et laurée de Zeus à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : W.
Reverse description : Cavalier au pas à gauche.
Commentary
Nous pourrions avoir affaire à un prototype du type au cavalier au W. Au droit , la tête de Philippe est encore de bon style. Seule la couronne de laurier proéminente permet de savoir que nous sommes en présence d’une imitation au droit. Pour le revers, il est plus difficile de distinguer un prototype. Nous avons l’impression que le graveur a simplement transposé le type classique à gauche. Seule la lettre du revers (W ou VV) permet d’identifier le type.
We could be dealing with a prototype of the type with the rider in the W. On the obverse, the head of Philip is still in good style. Only the prominent laurel wreath lets us know that we are in the presence of an imitation on the obverse. For the reverse, it is more difficult to distinguish a prototype. We have the impression that the engraver simply transposed the classic type to the left. Only the letter on the reverse (W or VV) allows us to identify the type
We could be dealing with a prototype of the type with the rider in the W. On the obverse, the head of Philip is still in good style. Only the prominent laurel wreath lets us know that we are in the presence of an imitation on the obverse. For the reverse, it is more difficult to distinguish a prototype. We have the impression that the engraver simply transposed the classic type to the left. Only the letter on the reverse (W or VV) allows us to identify the type
Historical background
DANUBIAN CELTS - IMITATIONS OF THE TETRADRACHMS OF PHILIP II AND HIS SUCCESSORS
(3rd-1st century BC)
Under this title are generally grouped all the coinages that do not have a precise attribution. Sometimes the term "Eastern Celts" is offered. After the Celts plundered Delphi and spread through Greece and Asia Minor, they seized a significant amount of spoils, thanks to their plunder. The Hellenistic kings, Diadoques or Epigones, used them as mercenaries in their armies where the average salary was normally one stater of gold corresponding to five tetradrachms of Attic standard or twenty drachms. The prototypes which represented the head of Zeus with a horseman were widely copied and imitated throughout the Balkans, northern Macedonia and Thrace. The final phase of the coinage occurs at the end of the 2nd century or the beginning of the first century BC where there are no traces of the obverse and the reverse as well as legends more than a domed face of a coin. practically smooth on both sides.
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