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bgr_464507 - CARIA - ISLANDS OF CARIA - COS Drachme

CARIA - ISLANDS OF CARIA - COS Drachme XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 230.00 €
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 220-200 AC.
Mint name / Town : Cos
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,07 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan légèrement décentré au droit sur le visage d’Héraklès. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine de collection avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue d'Héraklès à droite coiffée de la léonté.

Reverse


Reverse description : Crabe vu de face au-dessus d’une massue posée horizontalement.
Reverse legend : KWI[ON]// GUQIWN.
Reverse translation : (de Cos/ Gythion)).

Historical background


CARIA - ISLANDS OF CARIA - COS

(3rd - 2nd century BC)

The island of Cos, after 300 BC, found itself under lagid protection and was an important stopover for Egyptian trade. However, it must have entered the Seleucid orbit during the 2nd century. After 190 BC, she abandoned the Rhodian standard for the Attic standard. Like the other cities of Asia Minor, it had a very important civic coinage in the name and type of Alexander, at least until 166 BC..

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