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v53_0681 - DANUBIAN CELTS - IMITATIONS OF THE TETRADRACHMS OF PHILIP II AND HIS SUCCESSORS Tétradrachme au cavalier, imitation de Philippe II

DANUBIAN CELTS - IMITATIONS OF THE TETRADRACHMS OF PHILIP II AND HIS SUCCESSORS Tétradrachme au cavalier, imitation de Philippe II VF
MONNAIES 53 (2012)
Starting price : 190.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
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Type : Tétradrachme au cavalier, imitation de Philippe II
Date: (IIe-Ier siècles avant J.-C.)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 13,52 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie complète et frappée sur un flan large. Les reliefs sont émoussés par une usure assez marquée. Le flan est coupé d'un important coup de burin. Sinon, patine grise de collection ancienne
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Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à droite ; grènetis.

Reverse


Reverse description : Cavalier au pas à gauche, tenant une palme de la main droite ; le cheval lève l'antérieur à droite ; entre les jambes du cheval, I et E.
Reverse legend : FILP - L

Commentary


Si le statère d’or de Philippe II de Macédoine a servi de prototype à de nombreuses imitations gauloises, le tétradrachme n’a pas été imité en Gaule, mais reste principal sujet d’inspiration des monnaies pour les Celtes du Danube (LT. 9697-9767, 9768-9832, 9618-9630, 9870-9886). Les premières imitations furent frappées dans le premier quart du IIIe siècle avant J.-C. La fabrication des copies serviles, puis des imitations, enfin des frappes celtiques continuèrent pendant plus de deux siècles.
Le revers avec le cheval à gauche semble moins courant dans les imitations de Philippe II que ceux avec le cheval à droite. Sur cet exemplaire, la légende est rétrograde et erronée, avec FILP - L.
While the gold stater of Philip II of Macedon served as a prototype for many Gallic imitations, the tetradrachm was not imitated in Gaul, but remains the main source of inspiration for coins for the Danube Celts (LT. 9697-9767, 9768-9832, 9618-9630, 9870-9886). The first imitations were struck in the first quarter of the 3rd century BC. The manufacture of servile copies, then imitations, and finally Celtic strikes continued for more than two centuries. The reverse with the horse on the left seems less common in imitations of Philip II than those with the horse on the right. On this example, the legend is retrograde and erroneous, with FILP - L

Historical background


DANUBIAN CELTS - IMITATIONS OF THE TETRADRACHMS OF PHILIP II AND HIS SUCCESSORS

(3rd-1st century BC)

Under this title are generally grouped all the coinages that do not have a precise attribution. Sometimes the term "Eastern Celts" is offered. After the Celts plundered Delphi and spread through Greece and Asia Minor, they seized a significant amount of spoils, thanks to their plunder. The Hellenistic kings, Diadoques or Epigones, used them as mercenaries in their armies where the average salary was normally one stater of gold corresponding to five tetradrachms of Attic standard or twenty drachms. The prototypes which represented the head of Zeus with a horseman were widely copied and imitated throughout the Balkans, northern Macedonia and Thrace. The final phase of the coinage occurs at the end of the 2nd century or the beginning of the first century BC where there are no traces of the obverse and the reverse as well as legends more than a domed face of a coin. practically smooth on both sides.

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