bgr_267416 - BITHYNIA - HERACLEA PONTICA Drachme
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Price : 650.00 €
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 345-337 AC.
Mint name / Town : Héraclée Pontique, Bithynie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15,00 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,85 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais, bien centré des deux côtés à l’usure superficielle. Très beaux portraits. Joli revers avec une faiblesse de frappe sur la Tyché. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Peus 333, 6-11 mai 1992, n° 243 et de MONNAIES 51, n° 164
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe d’Héraklès à gauche, coiffée de la léonté nouée sous le cou.
Obverse legend : TI
Obverse translation : (Timothée ?).
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête tourelée d’Héra ou de Tyché à gauche, coiffée du stéphanos, la couronne ornée d’un motif floral décoratif ; légende au-dessus de la tête.
Reverse legend : HRAKLEIA
Reverse translation : (d’Héraclée).
Commentary
Type tout à fait inhabituel et qui semble complètement inédit et non recensé. Nous pourrions avoir affaire à une drachme frappée en 345 ou entre cette date et 337 avant J.-C. au nom du seul Timothée avant l’adoption du nouveau type avec la présence des deux lettres TI sous le cou d’Héraklès.
A very unusual type that appears to be completely new and unrecorded. We could be dealing with a drachma minted in 345 or between that date and 337 BC in the name of Timothy alone before the adoption of the new type with the presence of the two letters TI under the neck of Heracles.
A very unusual type that appears to be completely new and unrecorded. We could be dealing with a drachma minted in 345 or between that date and 337 BC in the name of Timothy alone before the adoption of the new type with the presence of the two letters TI under the neck of Heracles.
Historical background
BITHYNIA - HERACLEA PONTICA
(5th - 4th century BC)
Héraclée Pontique (Heraclea Pontica) was an important city at the entrance of Pont-Euxin. It was founded like Kios, Byzantium and Chalcedon by Megarian settlers of Dorian origin, associated with Boeotians from Tanagra around 558 BC, according to E. Babelon. It was governed by tyrants throughout the 5th century before experiencing a period of democracy between 415 and 364 BC. Many tyrants succeeded one another from Clearchus to Lysimachus between 352 and 281 BC. Satyros ensured power between 352 and 345 BC before being assassinated. Timothy and Dionysos shared power between 345 and 337 BC, then Dionysos kept it alone between 337 and 305 BC When he died, Amastris, wife of Dionysos succeeded him on behalf of his two sons Clearchus the Younger and Oxyathres. The queen married Lysimachus. When the queen was assassinated at the instigation of her sons, Lysimachus had them executed and seized the region. Heraclea Ponticus experienced a great period of economic and commercial prosperity until the 3rd century BC.
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