v43_0153 - BITHYNIA - BITHYNIAN KINGDOM - PRUSIAS II Unité de bronze, (MB, Æ 21)
MONNAIES 43 (2010)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
Realised price : 298.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 340.00 €
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
Realised price : 298.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 340.00 €
Type : Unité de bronze, (MB, Æ 21)
Date: c. 180-150 AC.
Mint name / Town : Nicomedia
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,61 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Revers de style fin. Très jolie patine verte profond
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste imberbe, juvénile et drapé de Dionysos à droite, couronné de feuilles de vigne.
Reverse
Reverse description : Le Centaure Chiron à droite, la tête de face, jouant de la lyre, sa tunique flottant derrière ; monogramme entre les antérieurs.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ PROUSIOU
Reverse translation : (du roi Prusias).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Très bel exemplaire pour ce monnayage. Semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Very light weight. Very fine example for this mintage. Seems rarer than general works suggest.
Very light weight. Very fine example for this mintage. Seems rarer than general works suggest.
Historical background
BITHYNIA - BITHYNIAN KINGDOM - PRUSIAS II
(185-149 BC)
Prusias II is the son of Prusias I (228-185 BC), king of Bithynia and the grandson of Philip V of Macedonia by his mother. Hannibal had taken refuge in Nicomedia with his father. For fear of being delivered to the Romans by Prusias II, the Carthaginian poisoned himself in 183 BC. ). Prusias II had to give up part of his territory to the King of Pergamon. He tried to ally himself with the Romans and, in the face of such cowardice, was finally assassinated in the temple of Zeus in Nicomedia by the mob.
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