v55_0508 - EMPORION and Celtic imitations (AMPURIAS) Drachme au pégase, Emporia
MONNAIES 55 (2012)
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
Realised price : 880.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 1 360.00 €
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
Realised price : 880.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 1 360.00 €
Type : Drachme au pégase, Emporia
Date: c. 240-212 AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 4,21 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Drachme parfaitement identifiable, avec un droit complet mais un peu mou et un revers de grande qualité. Patine sombre de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient d’une importante collection espagnole
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 ; listel.
Reverse legend : EMPORITWN
Commentary
Typologiquement, cette drachme est complète, tant au droit qu’au revers. La légende EMPORITWN est entière et particulièrement nette, avec de toutes petites lettres. Le pégase est d’une rare qualité !
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 and particularly clear, with very small letters. The Pegasus is of rare quality! 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 and particularly clear, with very small letters. The Pegasus is of rare quality! 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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