v43_1116 - EMPORION and Celtic imitations (AMPURIAS) Drachme au pégase, Emporia
MONNAIES 43 (2010)
Starting price : 680.00 €
Estimate : 900.00 €
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Starting price : 680.00 €
Estimate : 900.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Drachme au pégase, Emporia
Date: c. 240-212 AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 4,33 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Drachme parfaitement identifiable, avec un droit de grande qualité. Le revers est légèrement décentré mais complet. Patine irisée de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Perséphone à droite, les cheveux tirés en arrière, avec boucles d'oreilles ; deux dauphins devant le visage et un autre derrière le cou.
Reverse
Reverse description : Pégase volant à droite, les ailes déployées, légende entre la queue et les pattes arrières.
Reverse legend : EMPORITWN
Commentary
Typologiquement, cette drachme est complète, tant au droit qu’au revers. La légende EMPORITWN est entière, mais mal venue, avec de toutes petites lettres.
Cette drachme servit de prototype à de nombreuses monnaies lourdes du sud-ouest de la Gaule.
Typologically, this drachma is complete, both on the obverse and reverse. The legend EMPORITWN is complete, but poorly placed, with very small letters. This drachma served as a prototype for many heavy coins from southwest Gaul.
Cette drachme servit de prototype à de nombreuses monnaies lourdes du sud-ouest de la Gaule.
Typologically, this drachma is complete, both on the obverse and reverse. The legend EMPORITWN is complete, but poorly placed, with very small letters. This drachma served as a prototype for many heavy coins from southwest Gaul.
Historical background
EMPORION and Celtic imitations (AMPURIAS)
(3rd - 2nd century BC)
The notion of people or tribe seems to disappear with regard to certain attributions when we examine the imitation coins of Emporion or Rhodè. If the prototypes are struck beyond the Pyrenees, the imitations were issued on both sides of the mountain range. The early death of R. Boudet (1958-1995) did not allow him to establish a corpus of these coins. The finds are not limited to Aquitaine, but are spread over the great West between the Loire and the Pyrenees, i.e. nearly a third of the territory of ancient Gaul. The finds of imitations of the drachma of Emporion, which seems to have had a wider distribution, are numerous and spread over the whole of the geographical area: from Charnizay in the Indre-et-Loire or Issoudun in the 'Indre to Ruscino in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
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