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v53_0077 - ACHAIA - ACHAEAN LEAGUE - ARGOS Hemidrachme

ACHAIA - ACHAEAN LEAGUE - ARGOS Hemidrachme AU/AU
MONNAIES 53 (2012)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 315.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 315.00 €
Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 167-146 AC.
Mint name / Town : Argolide, Argos
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,48 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés avec le grènetis visible au droit. Très beau portrait de Zeus au droit. Joli revers à l’usure superficielle. Très belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES V, n° 77 et de la collection D. C

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à droite.

Reverse


Reverse description : Grand monogramme dans une couronne de laurier ; au-dessous, sous le monogramme, une massue.
Reverse legend : (AC)/ (TK).

Commentary


Poids très léger. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la collection BCD n° 1136 et que l’exemplaire du trésor d’Agrinion (IGCH. 271).

Historical background


ACHAIA - ACHAEAN LEAGUE - ARGOS

(196-146 BC)

Argos would have been founded by Inachus, Phoroneus, his son, or Argos his grandson. The city was located at the bottom of the Gulf of Argolis. She appears in History around 750 BC with Phidion. It was the second city of the Peloponnese after Sparta. She was subjugated by it in 524 BC thanks to the victory of Cleomenes. Argos became Sparta's hereditary enemy and took the Persian side in the Persian Wars, then allied with Athens in the Peloponnesian War. It entered the Achaean League in 243 BC. After the Roman conquest, it was part of the province of Achaia.

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