bga_197413 - INDIGETES - EMPORIA / UNTIKESKEN (Province of Girona - Ampurias) Unité de bronze ou as
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Item sold on our e-shop (2009)
Price : 240.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2009)
Price : 240.00 €
Type : Unité de bronze ou as
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Ampurias
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 28,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 11,29 g.
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie frappée sur un flan large avec le droit et le revers presque complets. Patine verte, légèrement piquée par endroits
Catalogue references :
LT.- - CNH.34 p. 155
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée d’Athéna à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LÉGENDE IBÉRIQUE EMPOR À L’EXERGUE.
Reverse description : Pégase à droite, les ailes dépliées ; une couronne au-dessus.
Commentary
Au revers, la légende EMPOR est bien nette et presque complète sous les jambes du pégase.
On the reverse, the legend EMPOR is very clear and almost complete under the legs of the Pegasus
On the reverse, the legend EMPOR is very clear and almost complete under the legs of the Pegasus
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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