v55_0037 - AIOLIS - LESBOS ISLAND - MYTILENE Hecté ou sixième de statère en électrum
MONNAIES 55 (2012)
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Hecté ou sixième de statère en électrum
Date: c. 344 AC.
Mint name / Town : Éolide, Mytilène
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 11 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,55 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 96e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan globulaire, fortement décentré des deux côtés sur la tête de Zeus au droit et la tête du serpent au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée et barbue de Zeus à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Serpent dressé à droite dans un carré creux linéaire.
Commentary
L’électrum est un alliage d’or et d’argent. Notre exemplaire fortement décentré est identifiable grâce au revers et au serpent, bien particulier. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la collection McClean du Fitzwilliam Museum n° 7975.
Electrum is an alloy of gold and silver. Our highly off-centered example is identifiable by the reverse and the distinctive serpent. Same dies as the example in the Fitzwilliam Museum's McClean Collection, no. 7975.
Electrum is an alloy of gold and silver. Our highly off-centered example is identifiable by the reverse and the distinctive serpent. Same dies as the example in the Fitzwilliam Museum's McClean Collection, no. 7975.
Historical background
AIOLIS - LESBOS ISLAND - MYTILENE
(5th - 4th century BC)
The island of Lesbos is located opposite the western coast of Asia Minor, at the entrance to the Gulf of Adramyteion at the mouth of the Hellespont. Mytilene, located on the eastern part of the island facing the mainland, was the main city. Its important electrum coinage would begin at the end of the 6th century or in the first years of the 5th century BC. The standard used is the phocaic with a stater of approximately 16.32 g. This electrum coinage ceased after the arrival of Alexander the Great in Asia Minor around 330 BC..
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