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Live auction - bgr_457664 - ATTICA - ATHENS Tétradrachme

ATTICA - ATHENS Tétradrachme XF
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Estimate : 750 €
Price : 460 €
Maximum bid : 660 €
End of the sale : 12 December 2017 14:13:13
bidders : 2 bidders
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 420 AC.
Mint name / Town : Athènes, Attique
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 16,93 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier. Belle tête d’Athéna avec le cimier complet, mais court sur le nez et le menton de la déesse. Joli revers. Patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du Docteur Frédéric Nordmann

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Athéna à droite, coiffée du casque attique à cimier, orné de trois feuilles d'olivier et d'une palmette avec collier et boucles d'oreilles.

Reverse


Reverse description : Chouette debout à droite, la tête de face ; derrière, une branche d'olivier et un croissant ; le tout dans les restes d'un carré creux.
Reverse legend : AQE
Reverse translation : (Athènes).

Commentary


Le visage présente encore une expression archaïque. L’œil est traité en amande étiré et droit. La chevelure est tombante sur le cou et ramenée en arrière. Les feuilles d’olivier du casque sont normales. Au revers, la chouette est petite et massive et les plumes descendent jusqu’aux serres de l’animal. Le carré creux est bien marqué.
The face still has an archaic expression. The eye is shaped like a stretched, straight almond. The hair falls down the neck and is swept back. The olive leaves on the helmet are normal. On the reverse, the owl is small and massive, and the feathers reach down to the animal's talons. The hollow square is well defined.

Historical background


ATTICA - ATHENS

(5th century BC)

The fortune of Athens in the 5th century rests largely on the recovery of the treasury of the League of Delos which contained no less than five thousand talents of silver and which served to enrich and embellish Athens by oppressing the Allies. The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) put an end to Athenian hegemony. Pericles (449-429 BC) did not live long enough to witness the fall of the city. Thucydides immortalized this conflict in his work devoted to the Peloponnesian War, of which he was one of the actors before being himself ostracized, that is to say exiled.

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