Live auction - bgr_1012078 - CORINTHIA - CORINTH Statère
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| Estimate : | 700 € |
| Price : | 460 € |
| Maximum bid : | 500 € |
| End of the sale : | 13 May 2025 14:11:45 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Statère
Date: c. 330 AC.
Mint name / Town : Corinthe, Corinthie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,49 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée des deux côtés présentant un très joli revers. Beau Pégase. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés, tachée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : Q (KOPPA ARCHAÏQUE).
Obverse description : Pégase volant à gauche, les ailes déployées.
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête d'Athéna à gauche, coiffée du casque corinthien ; derrière, une colombe dans une couronne.
Reverse legend : G
Commentary
Le symbole placé derrière la tête d’Athéna au revers n’est pas sans rappeler le revers du monnayage de Sicyone dont l’épisème était la colombe, volant, placée dans une couronne. La particularité de cette émission repose sur le fait qu’au droit, nous distinguons bien les deux ailes de Pégase comme le montre bien l’agrandissement du numéro 1025a du classement de Ravel à la planche LXXIV.
The symbol placed behind Athena's head on the reverse is reminiscent of the reverse of the Sicyon coinage, whose episema was the dove, flying, placed in a crown. The particularity of this issue lies in the fact that on the obverse, we can clearly distinguish the two wings of Pegasus, as shown by the enlargement of number 1025a of Ravel's classification on plate LXXIV.
The symbol placed behind Athena's head on the reverse is reminiscent of the reverse of the Sicyon coinage, whose episema was the dove, flying, placed in a crown. The particularity of this issue lies in the fact that on the obverse, we can clearly distinguish the two wings of Pegasus, as shown by the enlargement of number 1025a of Ravel's classification on plate LXXIV.
Historical background
CORINTHIA - CORINTH
(350-306 BC)
Corinth was the unwitting victim of Macedonian hegemony over Asia from Alexander the Great because it then lost its strategic role. Ptolemy I occupied it from 308 to 306 BC, which marks the date of the end of the manufacture of "colts". It joined the Achaean league after 268 BC, but the city was razed by Lucius Memmius in 146 BC for opposing Rome.
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