E-auction 48-20096 - bgr_272724 - IONIA - IONIAN ISLANDS - SAMOS Drachme

IONIA - IONIAN ISLANDS - SAMOS Drachme VF

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Estimate :	280 €
Price :	70 €
Maximum bid :	70 €
End of the sale :	17 March 2014 15:02:00
bidders :	7 bidders

Type : Drachme

Date: c. 530-526 AC

Mint name / Town : Samos, Ionie

Metal : silver

Diameter : 13 mm

Orientation dies : 9 h.

Weight : 3,25 g.

Rarity : INÉDIT

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale et irrégulier à l’usure très importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Patine noire

Catalogue references :

BMC.42 - GC.3520 - Cop.- - Aulock- - Rosen- - GCT.1436 - Barron34 var, pl II

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Protomé de sanglier à gauche, les pattes avant bien visibles.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Reverse description : Masque de lion dans un carré creux.

Commentary

Au revers, nous semblons bien avoir un masque de lion qui se retrouve sur certaines espèces lyciennes au droit. En fait il s’agit d’une drachmearchaïque de Samos.

Historical background

IONIA - IONIAN ISLANDS - SAMOS

(5th century BC)

The town of Samos was located southeast of the island of Samos. She joined the League of Delos as soon as it was created in 478/477 BC. Her contribution consisted in providing ships for the League. Samos revolted against the Athenian hegemony in 441-440 BC and Pericles came to besiege the city which did not surrender until 439 BC. During the Peloponnesian War, Samos was the main naval base athenian. In 411 BC, the Samians remained faithful to democracy after the Coup of the 400s in Athens. Rhodes, founded in 409 BC, will now be its greatest rival. When Athens fell, Sparta replaced it. In 390 BC, the Spartan fleet was captured by the Athenians. After the Peace of the Great King (Antalcidas), in 387 BC, the city found a certain prosperity. A second league was reconstituted in 378-377 BC, but in 365 BC, Thimothée seized Samos and replaced the inhabitants with a cleruchy (Athenian colony). Pythagoras was of Samian descent.