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v20_0042 - AKARNANIA - LEUKAS Statère ou didrachme

AKARNANIA - LEUKAS Statère ou didrachme XF
MONNAIES 20 (2004)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 155.00 €
Number of bids : 6
Maximum bid : 360.00 €
Type : Statère ou didrachme
Date: c. 150 AC.
Mint name / Town : Leucas
Metal : silver
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,16 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Faiblesse de frappe au droit sur la statue d'Aphrodite. Très joli revers parfaitement centré et complet
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Statue d'Aphrodite Aineias debout à droite sur une base, tenant de la main droite un aplustre ; à ses pieds, un cerf ; derrière, un sceptre long surmonté d'une colombe puis un aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre ; le tout dans une couronne de laurier.

Reverse


Reverse description : Proue de galère à droite, ornée d'une couronne de laurier.
Reverse legend : LEUKADIWN/ FILANDROS/ AN.

Commentary


Semble très proche de l'exemplaire provenant du trésor (CH VIII) n° 506, du nord-ouest de la Grèce, découvert en 1988-1989 et enfoui vers 90 avant J.-C. et qui, sur cent dix-neuf pièces d'argent, contenait vingt-et-un statères de Leucas (pl. 79/2) .

Historical background


AKARNANIA - LEUKAS

(after 167 BC)

Leucas is an island 32 km long and 12 km at its widest point, connected to the land by an isthmus. The city was located opposite the entrance to the Gulf of Ambracia. Its name comes from the many limestone hills on the island. The Corinthian colony was founded between 650 and 625 BC. As the monetary types indicate, Leucas was a Corinthian colony. These staters were widely used for trade with Syracuse and Italy. The city was the second production center for foals just after Corinth, the metropolis. This coinage lasted until the destruction of Corinth in 306 BC. Leucas was still in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC the transmitting center of the powerful Acarnanian league, created after 196 BC. After the dislocation of the league in 167 BC, the city underwent an economic revival which lasted until the beginning of the 1st century BC..

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