v15_0004 - INDIGETES - EMPORIA / UNTIKESKEN (Province of Girona - Ampurias) Unité de bronze ou as, (MB, Æ 27)
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 45.00 €
Estimate : 90.00 €
Realised price : 45.00 €
Starting price : 45.00 €
Estimate : 90.00 €
Realised price : 45.00 €
Type : Unité de bronze ou as, (MB, Æ 27)
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Ampurias
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 8,02 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan irrégulier et légèrement échancré à 7 heures. Faiblesse de frappe à 12 heures au revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES II, 21 juin 1997, n° 14
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée d’Athéna à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : EMPOR À L'EXERGUE.
Reverse description : Pégase à droite, les ailes repliées.
Commentary
Les émissions anépigraphes semblent plus courantes. Sur cet exemplaire, on remarque deux petites bavures de métal, marquant peut-être le début de la cassure du coin de droit.
Anepigraphic issues seem more common. On this example, we notice two small metal burrs, perhaps marking the beginning of the breakage of the obverse corner
Anepigraphic issues seem more common. On this example, we notice two small metal burrs, perhaps marking the beginning of the breakage of the obverse corner
Historical background
INDIGETES - EMPORIA / UNTIKESKEN (Province of Girona - Ampurias)
(1st century BC)
The Greek Emporion, the Roman Ampurias (Empúries in Catalan), today San Martin de Ampurias was founded around 580 BC, perhaps by Rhodian colonists like Rosas (Rhodè) or Phocaeans like Marseilles whose the foundations are contemporary. It was one of the most important ports in the Western Mediterranean. Emporia's Celtiberian name was Untikesken. After native issues, the city adopted the Latin alphabet. The coinage is late, between Caesar and Augustus. Emporia seems to have received the "municipium", during Augustus' journey in 27 or 25 BC. For the authors of the RPC, this right could already have been granted to it by Caesar, and only confirmed by Augustus. A very large number of aces were countermarked (cf., RPC. op. cit. p. 106-107).
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