v38_0229 - CARIA - ALABANDA Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 4
Mint name / Town : Alabanda, Carie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,30 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large, parfaitement centré et complet des deux côtés. Beau portrait de haut relief. Revers de style fin avec une usure superficielle. Patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés, légèrement tachée
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffé de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore assis à gauche sur un siège sans dossier, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, les jambes croisées, tenant un aigle de la main droite étendue et un sceptre long de la main gauche ; dans le champ à gauche, Pégase prenant son envol.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU/ D
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).
Commentary
Portrait tout à fait exceptionnel massif au menton prognathe. Au revers le petit Pégase est élégant, fin et racé. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du trésor de Tell Kotchek (Seyrig 15.395, pl. 26).
A truly exceptional, massive portrait with a prognathous chin. On the reverse, the small Pegasus is elegant, fine, and distinguished. Same obverse die as the copy from the Tell Kotchek treasure (Seyrig 15.395, pl. 26)
A truly exceptional, massive portrait with a prognathous chin. On the reverse, the small Pegasus is elegant, fine, and distinguished. Same obverse die as the copy from the Tell Kotchek treasure (Seyrig 15.395, pl. 26)
Historical background
CARIA - ALABANDA
(2nd century BC)
Coinage in the name of Alexander III the Great type
Alabanda of Caria was placed on the Marsyas river which then flowed into the Meander about thirty kilometers away. Its inhabitants were renowned for their dissolute morals. During the war against Philip V of Macedon, Alabanda would have allied with Rome. After 197 BC, falling into the hands of Antiochus III the Great (223-187 AC), the city changed its name to Antioch of Caria. After the defeat of Magnesia in 189 BC and the Peace of Apamea the following year, the city regained its independence and its name. It is at this time that the coinage in the name of Alexander would have begun. In 168-167, the cities of the provinces of Caria and Lycia were declared free by the Senate of Rome to thank them for the help given in the fight against the king of Macedonia, Perseus.
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