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v57_0142 - BITHYNIA - KIOS Hemidrachme

BITHYNIA - KIOS Hemidrachme AU
MONNAIES 57 (2013)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
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Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 340-330 AC.
Mint name / Town : Kios, Bithynie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 2,49 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés, un peu court. Très beau portrait d’Apollon juvénile. Joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Patine avec des reflets mordorés
Catalogue references :
BMC.- var. - GC.3757 var. - Aulock-  - B. traité2855 pl. CLXXX/19 - Cop.  - RG.- p. 312, pl. XLIX/20 - HGCS. 7/554

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à droite, les cheveux longs tombant sur la nuque.

Reverse


Reverse description : Proue de galère à gauche décorée, timbrée d’une étoile.
Reverse legend : [S]WSI/GENHS
Reverse translation : (Sosigénès).

Commentary


Magistrat : Sosigéhès.
Magistrate: Sosigehès

Historical background


BITHYNIA - KIOS

(4th century BC)

Kios was a rich commercial city at the entrance to the Propontis, founded according to legend by the Argonauts. Coinage would not begin before the second half of the 4th century BC. It was part of the Kingdom of Thrace under Lysimachus. The city was destroyed by Philip V of Macedon in 202 BC..

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