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v26_0089 - CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - RHODES Tridrachme ou double sicle

CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - RHODES Tridrachme ou double sicle VF
VF
MONNAIES 26 (2006)
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Tridrachme ou double sicle
Date: 394-387 AC.
Mint name / Town : Rhodes
Metal : silver
Diameter : 20,6 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,60 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan très large ovale et irrégulier. Flan piqué et corrodé. Exemplaire décentré de la plus grande rareté et parfaitement identifiable
Catalogue references :
BMC.18 pl. 45/2 - Aulock-  - Delepierre-  - GC.5031 (4000£) - B. traité1696 pl. 147/5
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du Numismatic Circular, mai 1983, n° 2923 et de celui d’octobre 1995, n° 5514, de MONNAIES XIX, n° 102 et de MONNAIES XXIV, n° 101

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Héraklès enfant agenouillé à droite, étranglant des serpents.

Reverse

Reverse description : Rose sur sa tige.
Reverse legend : R-O.

Commentary

Cet exemplaire provient du trésor d’Hecatomnus (CH. IX, p. 133, n° 16, pl. 19, n° 16 et p. 158, n° 2m). Mêmes coins que les exemplaires du trésor d’Hecatomnus n° 13 à 15 (pl. 19).

Historical background

CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - RHODES

(5th - 4th century BC)

Rhodes, federal capital, was founded in 408 BC, date of the beginning of coinage. Rhodes was besieged by Demetrius Poliorcetes in 305 BC It was a failure. The Rhodians thanked the protective god by erecting a statue to him at the entrance to the port. Chares of Lindos built the Colossus of Rhodes between 292 and 284 BC It was one of the seven wonders of the world. 33 meters high, it was destroyed by an earthquake in 226 BC. An oracle forbade the Rhodians to rebuild it. Rhodes, an ally of Rome, finally emancipated itself from Seleucid rule after 188 BC.

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