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Live auction - bgr_356272 - ARCADIA - ARCADIAN LEAGUE Hémidrachme

ARCADIA - ARCADIAN LEAGUE Hémidrachme XF
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Estimate : 750 €
Price : 490 €
Maximum bid : 500 €
End of the sale : 30 June 2015 14:22:27
bidders : 2 bidders
Type : Hémidrachme
Date: c. 450 - 440/430 AC.
Mint name / Town : Mantinée, Arcadie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,85 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier. Droit tout à fait inhabituel. Joli revers avec un début de cassure de coin. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection BCD et de la collection B. Odaert

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Zeus assis à gauche sur un trône sans dossier ; Zeus est nu jusqu’à la ceinture, le bras droit tendu au-dessus duquel un aigle prenant son envol à gauche.

Reverse


Reverse description : Tête d’Artémis à droite, les cheveux longs, retenus par un krobylos avec un collier ; le tout dans un carré creux.
Reverse legend : A-R-K-A.

Commentary


Poids léger. Début de cassure de coin perceptible au revers au niveau du cou d’Artémis au revers. Semble de même coin de revers que l’exemplaire de la collection BCD, Leu 96, n° 1462.

Historical background


ARCADIA - ARCADIAN LEAGUE

(5th century BC)

Arcadia was landlocked in the Peloponnese. For more than a century from the 6th century to the end of the 5th century BC. -VS. , the Héræiens imposed their hegemony on most of Arcadia and thus found themselves the motor of the Arcadian League whose primitive coinage would have begun around 510 BC. -VS. Their capital, Lycosura, a religious city said to be the oldest in the world, founded by Lycaon, in honor of Zeus Lycaios. The Heraeans presided over the games held in the sanctuary of Mount Lyceum. Arcadia had entered Spartan orbit around 470 BC.. -VS. The Heraeans lost control of the League around 418 BC. -VS. The Arcadian cities emancipated from Spartan rule after the Peace of Nicias in 421 BC. -VS. But in fact, they will have to wait for the Theban intervention of Epaminondas in Arcadia and the foundation of the new federal capital, Megalopolis in 371 BC.. -VS. The Arcadian hopes crumble ten years later in Mantinea where the Theban conqueror dies.. Arcadia came under Macedonian rule after the unfortunate attack of the Spartan king Agis III which was repelled by Antipater, regent of Alexander III, in 331 BC.. -VS.

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