bga_388834 - EMPORION and Celtic imitations (AMPURIAS) Drachme au pégase, Emporia
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Price : 750.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 750.00 €
Type : Drachme au pégase, Emporia
Date: c. 240-212 AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,64 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Très belle drachme, centrée au droit et au revers. Portrait très agréable, mais revers frappé avec un coin rouillé (?) qui rend un peu floue la zone supérieure du revers. Sinon, patine irisée de collection
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection M. G. ; c’est le n° 546 de MONNAIES 29
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 ; grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse description : Pégase volant à droite, les ailes déployées, légende entre la queue et les pattes arrières.
Reverse legend : [EMP]ORITWN
Commentary
Le centrage de cette drachme permet la présence des deux dauphins devant le visage et de celui derrière la nuque. Au revers, la légende est presque complète, mais très au bord du flan. Cette drachme servit de prototype à de nombreuses monnaies lourdes du sud-ouest de la Gaule.
The centering of this drachma allows for the presence of the two dolphins in front of the face and the one behind the neck. On the reverse, the legend is almost complete, but very close to the edge of the flan. This drachma served as a prototype for many heavy coins from southwest Gaul.
The centering of this drachma allows for the presence of the two dolphins in front of the face and the one behind the neck. On the reverse, the legend is almost complete, but very close to the edge of the flan. 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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