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v38_0233 - CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - COS Tétradrachme

CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - COS Tétradrachme AU
AU
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
Realised price : 953.00 €
Number of bids : 6
Maximum bid : 1 020.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 366-320 AC.
Mint name / Town : Cos
Metal : silver
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 15,15 g.
Rarity : R3
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais, bien centré, en particulier au revers. Très beau portrait légèrement décentré sur la droite, néanmoins bien visible. Très beau portrait. Très joli revers. Recouvert d’une patine avec des reflets bleutés et mordorés
Catalogue references :
Aulock2748  - Dewing-  - B. traité-

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe d'Héraklès à gauche coiffée de la léonté.

Reverse

Reverse description : Crabe vu de face au-dessus d’une massue posée horizontalement ; le tout dans un carré creux pointillé.
Reverse legend : KWION// NESTORIDAS.
Reverse translation : (de Cos/ Nestoridas).

Commentary

Magistrat : Nestoridas. Même coin de revers que l’exemplaire de la collection von Aulock (N° 2478) (CH. XI, p. 231, n° 23, (R/17, pl. 37).

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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