v59_0141 - CYRENAICA - CYRENE Obole
MONNAIES 59 (2013)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Obole
Date: 470-450 AC.
Mint name / Town : Cyrène, Cyrénaïque
Metal : silver
Diameter : 9 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 0,65 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés à l’usure très importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Richard Swan en 1997 et de la collection du docteur Thierry de Craeker
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : plant de silphium.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Tête barbue et cornue de Zeus Ammon à droite dans une grènetis perlé carré ; légende extérieure ; le tout dans les restes d’un carré creux.
Commentary
L’attribution de cette monnaie divisionnaire n’est pas aisée. Elle ne porte pas d’inscription et le grènetis au revers est carré comme sur les espèces de Barcé qui n’a pas frappé d’oboles. Le poids de notre exemplaire est élevé pour une monnaie divisionnaire (0,65 g) et correspond plus à une obole d’étalon euboïco-attique qu’à l’étalon asiatique ou milésiaque.
The attribution of this divisional coin is not easy. It does not bear any inscription and the beading on the reverse is square like on the species of Barce who did not strike obols. The weight of our example is high for a divisional coin (0.65 g) and corresponds more to an obol of the Euboico-Attic standard than to the Asian or Milesiac standard
The attribution of this divisional coin is not easy. It does not bear any inscription and the beading on the reverse is square like on the species of Barce who did not strike obols. The weight of our example is high for a divisional coin (0.65 g) and corresponds more to an obol of the Euboico-Attic standard than to the Asian or Milesiac standard
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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