bgr_399807 - AEGINA - AEGINA ISLAND - AEGINA Statère

AEGINA - AEGINA ISLAND - AEGINA Statère AU

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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 2 900.00 €

Type : Statère

Date: c. 350-338 AC.

Mint name / Town : Égine

Metal : silver

Diameter : 24,5 mm

Orientation dies : 9 h.

Weight : 12,13 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré des deux côtés. Carapace de la tortue de haut relief. Représentation du revers élégante. Très belle patine de médaillier avec des reflets dorés

Catalogue references :

GC.2604 var. - Delepierre- - B. traité128 pl. 195/19 - Dewing- - BMC.188 var - HGCS. 6/439

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’Alain Weil en 2001 et de la collection D. C

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tortue terrestre vue de dessus.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Reverse description : Carré creux divisé en cinq compartiments ; le troisième canton est orné d’un petit dauphin.

Reverse legend : A-IG.

Historical background

AEGINA - AEGINA ISLAND - AEGINA

(4th century BC)

The city of Aegina is located on the island of the same name. It is placed equidistant between Athens and the coast of Argolis. It was in Aegina that the first coins of the West were minted in the 6th century BC. Its geographical and economic situation was to make it a commercial place of primary importance at the crossroads between Euboea, Athens, Corinth and the Peloponnese. The Aeginetic Stallion (from Aegina) quickly spread throughout the Aegean Sea, Greece, Crete and part of Asia Minor. Coinage does not seem to have started before the second half of the 6th century BC. Unfortunately, after the Persian Wars, the city found itself eclipsed by Athens, which captured it in 457 BC. The Aeginetans were driven out by the Athenians. Aegina regained its freedom only after the fall of Athens, but it had definitely lost its economic power. After the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC, it fell under Macedonian rule.