Live auction - bgr_1106806 - MACEDONIA - CHALCIDIAN LEAGUE - OLYNTHUS Tétradrachme
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Live starting : Type : Tétradrachme
Date: 379-348 AC.
Mint name / Town : Olynthe
Metal : silver
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,46 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, centré. Superbe revers, bien venu à la frappe. Joli portrait d’Apollon. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à droite avec des baies dans la couronne.
Reverse
Reverse description : Cithare.
Reverse legend : C-A-L/ KID/ EWN/ EPI STRATWNOS
Reverse translation : (de Chalcidique/ Du magistrat Stratonos).
Historical background
MACEDONIA - CHALCIDIAN LEAGUE - OLYNTHUS
(432-348 BC)
In 433 BC, Perdiccas II, King of Macedonia raised Olynthe and made it the capital of what was to become the Chalcidic League in order to thwart the aims of Athens in the region. Brasidas at the head of the Lacedaemonian fleet rallied the region against the hegemony of Athens, after the defection of Amphipolis. The Peace of Nicias in 421 BC guaranteed the freedom of the cities of Chalkidiki, including Olynthus, which then experienced an intense period of economic development. Olynthe fell under Spartan domination in 379 BC. The city had to face the Macedonian ambitions of Philip II. Olynthus was taken and destroyed by Philip II in 347 BC and its population enslaved.
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