MONNAIES 57 (2013)
Starting price : 650.00 €
Estimate : 950.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 650.00 €
Estimate : 950.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Statère
Date: c. 379-368 AC.
Mint name / Town : Thèbes, Béotie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 12,13 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, légèrement court au droit. Joli revers. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Bouclier béotien.
Reverse
Reverse description : Cratère (diota) surmonté d’une couronne.
Reverse legend : FA-RO
Reverse translation : (Pharo).
Commentary
Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de la collection BCD, n° 508 présentant le même petit défaut dans le champ à droite avec une cassure de coin visible au droit sur le bouclier. Ce statère appartient à la série d’Épaminondas qui trouva la mort à la bataille de Mantinée en 362 avant J.-C .
Same obverse die as the copy in the BCD collection, no. 508, which has the same small defect in the right field with a die break visible on the right on the shield. This stater belongs to the series of Epaminondas, who died at the Battle of Mantinea in 362 BC.
Same obverse die as the copy in the BCD collection, no. 508, which has the same small defect in the right field with a die break visible on the right on the shield. This stater belongs to the series of Epaminondas, who died at the Battle of Mantinea in 362 BC.
Historical background
BEOTIA - THEBES
(5th - 4th century BC)
Thebes was Athens' great rival. During the Peloponnesian War (431-404 AC.), she was an ally of Sparta. It dominated Greece, thanks to the strategist Epaminondas who, after the liberation of Thebes in 379 BC, successively triumphed over Sparta at Leuctra (371 AC.) and Corinth (369 AC.) before finding death at Mantinea (362 AC.). After this date, Philip II of Macedonia imposes his domination over Boeotia. Thebes was crushed in 338 BC at Chéronée where Alexander cut his teeth. The city is destroyed three years later.
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