v59_0138 - CYRENAICA - CYRENE Drachme

MONNAIES 59 (2013)
Starting price : 950.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
Realised price : 2 523.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 9 000.00 €

Type : Drachme

Date: c. 500 AC.

Mint name / Town : Cyrène, Cyrénaïque

Metal : silver

Diameter : 12 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 3,88 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan globulaire. Droit énigmatique. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés

Catalogue references :

Müller- - B. traité-

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire a été acquis à Bruxelles en 2007 et provient de la collection du docteur Thierry de Craeker

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Graine de silphium dans sa gousse ouverte.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Reverse description : Lièvre en position d’arrêt surmonté de deux graines de silphium au-dessus, une de chaque côté.

Commentary

Poids léger. Semble de la plus insigne rareté.

Historical background

CYRENAICA - CYRENE

(6th - 5th centuries BC)

Cyrene, a port city located in Cyrenaica, was founded by Dorian settlers from the island of Thera around 630 BC. They were headed by Battus, the mythical ancestor of the Battides who reigned over Cyrene for two centuries. The city was famous for the cultivation and harvesting of silphium, one of the most sought-after medicinal plants of antiquity, which has now disappeared. The city, independent, was in the Egyptian orbit. It did not fall under Persian rule. The city, after the death of Arcésilaus IV, the last descendant of the Battides, Cyrene became a democracy in the middle of the 5th century BC..

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