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v09_0079 - ATTICA - ATHENS Tétradrachme

ATTICA - ATHENS Tétradrachme XF
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 228.67 €
Estimate : 381.12 €
Realised price : 381.12 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 440 AC.
Mint name / Town : Attique, Athènes
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,40 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan très large, montrant une tête d'Athéna presque complète. Usure régulière et joli style du portrait / Revers parfaitement centré dans les restes d'un carré creux presque complet. Frappe néanmoins molle

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'oreille.

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

Commentary


Poids léger. Ce type pourrait être plus ancien et contemporain de l'époque de Périclès.
Lightweight. This type could be older and contemporary with the time of Pericles.

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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