v49_0199 - BITHYNIA - BITHYNIAN KINGDOM - PRUSIAS II Unité, (PB, Æ 20)
MONNAIES 49 (2011)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
Realised price : 235.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 300.00 €
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
Realised price : 235.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 300.00 €
Type : Unité, (PB, Æ 20)
Date: c. 180-150 AC.
Mint name / Town : Bithynie, Nicomédie
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,47 g.
Rarity : R2
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, où tous les détails sont visibles, même du manteau. Très jolie patine vert olive
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’OGN (1996)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste imberbe, juvénile et drapé de Dionysos (Bacchus) 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.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ PROUSIOU
Reverse translation : (du roi Prusias).
Commentary
Exemplaire sans différent monétaire qui semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
example without monetary difference which seems much rarer than general works suggest
example without monetary difference which seems much 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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