Live auction - bgr_340755 - CYPRUS - SALAMINA - PNYTHAGORAS Tetrobole

CYPRUS - SALAMINA - PNYTHAGORAS Tetrobole AU

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Estimate :	850 €
Price :	no bid
Maximum bid :	no bid
End of the sale :	03 December 2014 14:27:45

Type : Tetrobole

Date: c. 351-332 AC.

Mint name / Town : Salamine, Chypre

Metal : silver

Diameter : 12,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 2,27 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage. Très beaux portraits. Jolie patine de collection ancienne

Catalogue references :

P.2900 - BMC.81 pl. 12/16 - B. traité1187 - Dewing2534

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES 34, n° 256

Obverse

Obverse description : Tête d’Aphrodite diadémée à gauche, les cheveux longs, tombant sur la nuque.

Obverse legend : G[N].

Reverse

Reverse description : Tête d’Artémis à droite, les cheveux relevés avec boucle d’oreille et collier.

Reverse legend : BA.

Commentary

Sur cet exemplaire, les lettres au droit et au revers sont bien visibles. C’est une sorte de rébus : la légende débute au revers avec BA pour Basileos et ensuite GN pour Pnythagoras.

Historical background

CYPRUS - SALAMINA - PNYTHAGORAS

(351-332 BC)

In 351, a revolt broke out in Cyprus against the authority of Artaxerxes III Ochus (359-338 AC.). Evagoras II was driven out of Salamis and replaced by Pnytagoras (351-332 AC.). Evagoras II took refuge in Asia Minor, in Caria, with Idreius satrap of Caria. Artaxerxes III ordered the formation of a fleet and an army to reconquer Cyprus. Phocion, leader of the fleet, and Evagoras II with forty ships and eight thousand Greek mercenaries landed in Cyprus and laid siege to Salamis. Evagoras failed, had to definitively abandon Cyprus and return to Caria. To compensate him, Artaxexes III gave him Sidon, in Phoenicia. Pnythagoras retained the favor of the Great King and remained his vassal until the arrival of Alexander III the Great.