Live auction - bgr_1031881 - CARIA - KNIDOS Tétradrachme
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Live starting : Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 387-345 AC.
Mint name / Town : Cnide
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,37 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait sur un flan ovale. Très joli revers avec une patine de médaillier. Légère retouche de surface
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XI, n° 124, de MONNAIES XXIII, n°123, de MONNAIES XXVI, n° 85, et de MONNAIES XXIX, n° 32
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Aphrodite Euploia à gauche, les cheveux relevés en arrière et retenus par un sphendone ; derrière la tête, une proue de galère.
Obverse legend : [K-NI]
Reverse
Reverse description : Protomé de lion à gauche, la gueule ouverte, la langue pendante ; le tout dans les restes d'un carré creux.
Reverse legend : TIMOTELHS
Commentary
Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la vente Sternberg XII, 1982, n° 259. Monétaire Timotelès ( est :5000FS).
Same dies as the copy from the Sternberg XII sale, 1982, no. 259. Timotelès monetary (est: 5000FS)
Same dies as the copy from the Sternberg XII sale, 1982, no. 259. Timotelès monetary (est: 5000FS)
Historical background
CARIA - KNIDOS
(300-190 BC)
Knidos was a very old city, a great economic, political and cultural centre. In 476 BC it entered the Attico-Delian league and remained there until 412 BC, after the Athenian defeat in Sicily. The coinage of Cnidus seems to resume at the beginning of the 4th century. It was off Cnidus, in 394 BC, that the Athenian Conon, helped by the satrap Pharnabaze, won a great naval victory over the Spartan fleet of Lysander. Aphrodite, who was worshiped at Cnidus, is believed to have inspired Conon. Around 350 BC, Praxiteles executed at the request of the Cnidians a statue of Aphrodite which appears on the coinage until the Hellenistic period, more precisely until the battle of Magnesia in 189 BC..
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