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Live auction - bgr_340761 - BACTRIA - BACTRIAN KINGDOM - ANTIMACHUS I THEOS Tétradrachme

BACTRIA - BACTRIAN KINGDOM - ANTIMACHUS I THEOS Tétradrachme AU
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Estimate : 3 200 €
Price : 1 800 €
Maximum bid : 1 800 €
End of the sale : 03 December 2014 14:39:35
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 174-165 AC.
Mint name / Town : Bactres, Bactriane
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,75 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait. Frappe un peu molle au revers, mais bien venu. Patine gris foncé, légèrement granuleuse et tachée
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Giesener Münzhandlung, 102, 24 mai 2000, n° 350 et de MONNAIES 34, n° 303. Certificat d’exportation

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé d’Antimaque Ier à droite, coiffé de la kausia.

Reverse


Reverse description : Poséidon debout de face, à demi-nu, le manteau (himation) sur l’épaule, tenant un trident de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS QEOU/ ANTIMACOU/ (ON).
Reverse translation : (Du roi divin Antimaque).

Commentary


Semble de mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 276, pl. 15).

Historical background


BACTRIA - BACTRIAN KINGDOM - ANTIMACHUS I THEOS

(174-165 BC)

Antimachus I Theos is the contemporary of Demetrius I (200-185 BC), Euthydemos II (185-180 BC), son of Eurthydemus I (230-200 BC). C.), Agathocles (190-180 BC), Pantaleon (185-180 BC), Apollodotus I (174-165 BC) and Demetrius II (175-170 BC). Antimachus I seems to disappear when Eucratides I takes power and unifies Bactria by eliminating all its competitors.

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