bgr_287309 - AIOLIS - CYME Hemiobole
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 195.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 195.00 €
Type : Hemiobole
Date: c. 450 AC.
Mint name / Town : Cymé, Éolide
Metal : silver
Diameter : 8,5 mm
Weight : 0,37 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré. Très joli droit. Joli revers. Belle patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente de Paul Francis Jacquier de mars 1999
Obverse
Obverse legend : K RÉTROGRADE.
Obverse description : Tête d’aigle à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse description : Carré creux quadripartite en ailes de moulin.
Commentary
Poids léger. La tête de l’aigle très particulière peut faire penser comme pour le monnayage de Sinope à un rapace marin.
Lightweight. The head of the very particular eagle can make one think, as with the Sinope coinage, of a marine bird of prey.
Lightweight. The head of the very particular eagle can make one think, as with the Sinope coinage, of a marine bird of prey.
Historical background
AIOLIS - CYME
(5th - 4th century BC)
Cymé, today Sandakli, one of the most important cities of the Aeolian coast, was located south of Myrhina. It had a port and was founded by Locrians. She herself is at the origin of the foundation of Side in Pamphylia and of Cumae in Campania. It is the homeland of Hesiod.
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