v38_0243 - CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - RHODES Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 550.00 €
Estimate : 950.00 €
Realised price : 550.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 765.00 €
Starting price : 550.00 €
Estimate : 950.00 €
Realised price : 550.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 765.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 201-190 AC.
Mint name / Town : Rhodes
Metal : silver
Diameter : 30,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,98 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 13e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré des deux côtés avec le grènetis visible au droit, complet au revers. Portrait magnifique. Revers inhabituel de très joli style. Jolie patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste imberbe d'Alexandre le Grand sous les traits d'Héraklès à droite, coiffé de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore assis à gauche sur un trône avec dossier, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, les jambes croisées, tenant de la main droite un aigle et de la gauche, un sceptre long ; dans le champ inférieur à gauche, une rose.
Reverse legend : ALECANDROU// AINHTWR// RO
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre/ Ainetor, de Rhodes).
Commentary
Magistrat Ainétor. Même coin de droit que trois exemplaires de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS) U-89 pour Stasion, U-128 pour Damocrinès et U-138 pour Diophanès, le premier provenant du trésor de Mektepini, n° 465 (IGCH. 1410). C’est une nouvelle association de coin qui n’était pas recensée liée à Ainetor.
Magistrate Ainetor. Same obverse die as three examples from the American Numismatic Society (ANS) U-89 for Stasion, U-128 for Damocrines and U-138 for Diophanes, the first from the Mektepini hoard, No. 465 (IGCH. 1410). This is a new die association that was not previously recorded as being linked to Ainetor
Magistrate Ainetor. Same obverse die as three examples from the American Numismatic Society (ANS) U-89 for Stasion, U-128 for Damocrines and U-138 for Diophanes, the first from the Mektepini hoard, No. 465 (IGCH. 1410). This is a new die association that was not previously recorded as being linked to Ainetor
Historical background
CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - RHODES
(3rd - 2nd century BC)
Coinage in the name of Alexander III the Great type
Helios or Apollo was the main deity of Caria and Rhodes. The city, the federal capital, was founded in 408 BC, the date of the beginning of coinage. Rhodes was besieged by Demetrius Poliorcetes in 305 BC It was a failure. The Rhodians thanked the protective god by erecting a statue to him at the entrance to the port. Chares of Lindos built the Colossus of Rhodes between 292 and 284 BC It was one of the seven wonders of the world. 33 meters high, it was destroyed by an earthquake in 226 BC. An oracle forbade the Rhodians to rebuild it. On the reverse, the rose, in Greek rodion, is a linguistic symbol of the city and makes it possible to attribute this tetradrachm. It is possible that this coinage was made to pay a tribute to Antiochus III who did not use the Rhodian standard, which could explain the relatively short manufacturing time, Rhodes allied with Rome definitively emancipating itself from Seleucid tutelage, after 188 BC.
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