Live auction - bgr_891651 - CYRENAICA - CYRENE - SATRAP PTOLEMY Statère d’or décalitre

CYRENAICA - CYRENE - SATRAP PTOLEMY Statère d’or décalitre AU

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Estimate :	6 000 €
Price :	4 900 €
Maximum bid :	4 900 €
End of the sale :	05 March 2024 14:34:29
bidders :	5 bidders

Type : Statère d’or décalitre

Date: c. 322-313 AC

Mint name / Town : Cyrène, Cyrénaïque

Metal : gold

Diameter : 19 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 8,62 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Bel exemplaire, centré des deux côtés sur un flan court. Joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Quadrige avec des faiblesses. Patine de collection

Catalogue references :

BMC.116 - B. traité1842 - Cop.1209

Predigree :

Avec son certificat d'exportation de bien culturel n°244761 délivré par le ministère français de la Culture

Obverse

Obverse description : Quadrige au pas passant à droite, conduit par un aurige, vêtu du chiton ; au-dessus un disque solaire.

Obverse legend : KURANAI-ON.

Obverse translation : (de Cyrène).

Reverse

Reverse description : Zeus Ammon assis à gauche tenant un aigle de la main droite et reposant le bras gauche sur le dossier de son trône ; dans le champ, à droite, un thymiatérion.

Reverse legend : XAIRIO.

Reverse translation : (Xairio).

Historical background

CYRENAICA - CYRENE - SATRAP PTOLEMY

(323-306 BC)

Cyrene, a port city located in Cyrenaica, was founded by Dorian settlers from the island of Thera around 630 BC. They were headed by Battus, the mythical ancestor of the Battides who reigned over Cyrene for two centuries. The city was famous for the cultivation and harvesting of silphium, one of the most sought-after medicinal plants of antiquity, now extinct. The city, although independent, was in Egyptian orbit. When Alexander captured Egypt in 332/331 BC, he signed a peace treaty with Cyrene guaranteeing him relative autonomy. After the death of the conqueror, the region of Cyrene fell under Lagid rule. In 322 BC, the Cyreneans appealed to Ptolemy to rid them of the tyrant Tibron. The satrap sent his general Ophellas who conquered the country, put the tyrant to death and installed himself as a strategist in Cyrene. Ophellas was in turn overthrown in 313 BC. Ptolemy recovered Cyrene in 308 BC and installed his son-in-law Magas there (308-277 AC.).