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v59_0146 - CYRENAICA - CYRENE - SATRAP PTOLEMY Litra

CYRENAICA - CYRENE - SATRAP PTOLEMY Litra AU
MONNAIES 59 (2013)
Starting price : 650.00 €
Estimate : 950.00 €
Realised price : 650.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 1 045.00 €
Type : Litra
Date: 322-313 AC.
Mint name / Town : Cyrène, Cyrénaïque
Metal : gold
Diameter : 8 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 0,85 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Beaux portraits de Zeus Ammon et de Cyrène
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de la Banque Populaire du Nord (Yves Cellard) en 1981 et de la collection du docteur Thierry de Craeker

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue et cornue de Zeus-Ammon à gauche ; grènetis linéaire.

Reverse


Reverse description : Tête féminine (Cyrène) avec pendants d’oreille et collier.
Reverse legend : KU
Reverse translation : (Cyrène).

Commentary


Mêmes coins que les exemplaires du British Museum (BMC. 159 et 160, pl. XV, n° 29 et 30).
Same dies as the British Museum examples (BMC. 159 and 160, pl. XV, nos. 29 and 30)

Historical background


CYRENAICA - CYRENE - SATRAP PTOLEMY

(323-306 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, now extinct. The city, although independent, was in Egyptian orbit. When Alexander captured Egypt in 332/331 BC, he signed a peace treaty with Cyrene guaranteeing him relative autonomy. After the death of the conqueror, the region of Cyrene fell under Lagid rule. In 322 BC, the Cyreneans appealed to Ptolemy to rid them of the tyrant Tibron. The satrap sent his general Ophellas who conquered the country, put the tyrant to death and installed himself as a strategist in Cyrene. Ophellas was in turn overthrown in 313 BC. Ptolemy recovered Cyrene in 308 BC and installed his son-in-law Magas there (308-277 AC.).

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