v36_0183 - CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - COS Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 1 000.00 €
Estimate : 2 200.00 €
Realised price : 1 300.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 1 793.00 €
Starting price : 1 000.00 €
Estimate : 2 200.00 €
Realised price : 1 300.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 1 793.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 390 AC.
Mint name / Town : Cos
Metal : silver
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 15,13 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais et irrégulier, relativement bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Joli revers plus archaïque. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets mordorés
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient très certainement du trésor d’Hecatomnus
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue d'Héraklès à gauche, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Crabe vu de face ; à l’exergue, une massue ; le tout dans un carré linéaire dans les restes d’un carré creux.
Reverse legend : XENODIKOS/ KWION
Reverse translation : (Xénodikos).
Commentary
Semble de mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la collection Keckman (ECK. 285, pl. 11).
Appears to have the same corners as the copy in the Keckman collection (ECK. 285, pl. 11)
Appears to have the same corners as the copy in the Keckman collection (ECK. 285, pl. 11)
Historical background
CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - COS
(4th century BC)
Cos was originally a Dorian colony from Epidaurus which brought the cult of Asklepios to the island. It is the homeland of Hippocrates, the founder of medicine. Cos was part of the League of Delos and paid tribute to Athens. The founding of a new symmachic capital in 366 BC revived the economic activity which was to last until the Macedonian conquest. Rival of Rhodes and Halicarnassus, the island lost its importance after 333 BC After the death of Alexander the Great, it fell under the domination of Ptolemy. The latter stayed on the island in 309 BC with his wife Berenice and it was there that Ptolemy II Philadelphus was born..
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