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Live auction - bgr_355072 - AETOLIA - AETOLIAN LEAGUE Quart de statère ou hemidrachme

AETOLIA - AETOLIAN LEAGUE Quart de statère ou hemidrachme AU/AU
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Estimate : 450 €
Price : 320 €
Maximum bid : 330 €
End of the sale : 30 June 2015 14:15:57
bidders : 3 bidders
Type : Quart de statère ou hemidrachme
Date: c. 205-150 AC.
Mint name / Town : Thermos, Étolie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 2,18 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale et irrégulier, court sur la légende au revers. Beau portrait de l’Étolie. Joli revers, mais un peu court. Sanglier de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse description : Têted’Atalante à droite coiffée du pétase.
Obverse legend : (So).

Reverse


Reverse description : Sanglier calydonien à droite ; fer de lance couché à droite à l’exergue (non visible sur cet exemplaire).
Reverse legend : [AI]TWLW[N]// KO (SO).
Reverse translation : (des Étoliens).

Commentary


Poids léger. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la collection BCD (M&M 23), n° 524.

Historical background


AETOLIA - AETOLIAN LEAGUE

(279-168 BC)

The Aetolians seem to have federated under Philip II of Macedon, but it was only after the death of Alexander III in 323 that the Aetolians became truly independent. However, their coinage does not begin before 279 BC.. -VS. , the invasion of the Galatians and the death of Ptolemy Ceraunus. The Aetolians crushed the Galatians the following year before Delphi. This victory is at the origin of the expansion of the League where the Boeotians and the Acarnanians and part of the Thessalians joined.. The capital of the League was located at Thermos under the protection of Apollo where the confederal assemblies of the League were held. Very quickly the Aetolian League opposed the Achaean League during the War of the Two Leagues (220-217 BC).. -VS. ). The Aetolians did not hesitate to appeal to the Romans to settle their account with Philip V of Macedonia, an ally of the Achaeans. Philip was defeated by Flaminius at Cynoscephali in 197 BC. -VS. Flaminius declared the Liberty of the Greeks the following year at Corinth at the Isthmian Games. The Aetolians, disappointed, then appealed to Antiochos III of Syria who was in turn defeated at Magnesia of the Meander in 189 BC.. -VS. and signed the Peace of Apamea the following year. The Aetolians maintained their independence until the fall of the Kingdom of Macedon and the defeat of Perseus at Pydna in 168 BC.. -VS. The Aetolians were then integrated into the province of Achaia.

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