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Price : 950.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 950.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme stéphanophore
Date: c. 160 AC.
Mint name / Town : Éolide, Cymé, monétaire Kallias
Metal : silver
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,46 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, bien centré. Très beau portrait, bien venu à a frappe. Joli revers de style fin. La monnaie a conservé une partie de son coupant. Petite faiblesse à 11h sur la couronne du revers. Patine grise de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de la nymphe Kymé diadémée à droite, les cheveux relevés et coiffés en petit chignon.
Reverse
Reverse description : Cheval au pas à droite, levant l'antérieur droit au-dessus d'une coupe à une anse ; le tout dans une couronne de laurier.
Reverse legend : KUMAIWN// KALLIAS.
Historical background
AIOLIS - CYME
(2nd 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. Stephanophoric coinage was the subject of a study by JM Oakley, Wreathed Tetradrachms of Kymé published by the ANS. in MN.27, (1982) which lists several hundred specimens, the majority of which come from the great find of Cilicia discovered in 1973 CH. I and which contained more than five thousand tetradrachms.
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