v43_0176 - AIOLIS - CYME Tétradrachme stéphanophore
MONNAIES 43 (2010)
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
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Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Tétradrachme stéphanophore
Date: c. 160 AC.
Mint name / Town : Cymé
Metal : silver
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 16,69 g.
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique exemplaire avec une jolie patine de médaillier avec des reflets dorés. Portrait de haut relief. Revers de très joli style
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES 36, n° 161 (850€)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de la nymphe Kymé diadémée à droite, les cheveux relevés et coiffés en petit chignon.
Reverse
Reverse description : Cheval au pas à droite, levant l'antérieur gauche au-dessus d'une coupe à une anse ; le tout dans une couronne de laurier.
Reverse legend : KUMAIWN// MHTROFANHS
Reverse translation : (de Cymé/ Métrophanès).
Commentary
Magistrat, Métrophanès. Même coin de droit que les exemplaires de la collection Jameson (n° 1460) et de la collection du musée de Copenhague (n° 104) et que les exemplaires de MONNAIES III, n° 54, de MONNAIES IV, n° 93, de MONNAIES V, n° 79 = MONNAIES 34, n° 187, MONNAIES XVI, n° 93 et de MONNAIES 41, n° 203. Cassure de coin caractéristique visible sur la joue de Cymé au droit et un cheveu devant la bouche de la nymphe.
Magistrate, Metrophanes. Same obverse die as the examples in the Jameson Collection (no. 1460) and the Copenhagen Museum Collection (no. 104) and as the examples of COINS III, no. 54, COINS IV, no. 93, COINS V, no. 79 = COINS 34, no. 187, COINS XVI, no. 93 and COINS 41, no. 203. Characteristic die break visible on Cymé's cheek on the obverse and a hair in front of the nymph's mouth
Magistrate, Metrophanes. Same obverse die as the examples in the Jameson Collection (no. 1460) and the Copenhagen Museum Collection (no. 104) and as the examples of COINS III, no. 54, COINS IV, no. 93, COINS V, no. 79 = COINS 34, no. 187, COINS XVI, no. 93 and COINS 41, no. 203. Characteristic die break visible on Cymé's cheek on the obverse and a hair in front of the nymph's mouth
Historical background
AIOLIS - CYME
(2nd century BC)
Cymé, today Sandakli, one of the most important cities of the Aeolian coast, was located south of Myrhina. It had a port and was founded by Locrians. She herself is at the origin of the foundation of Side in Pamphylia and of Cumae in Campania. It is the homeland of Hesiod. Stephanophoric coinage was the subject of a study by JM Oakley, Wreathed Tetradrachms of Kymé published by the ANS. in MN.27, (1982) which lists several hundred specimens, the majority of which come from the great find of Cilicia discovered in 1973 CH. I and which contained more than five thousand tetradrachms.
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