v59_0084 - LOCRIS - OPUS Obole
MONNAIES 59 (2013)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 280.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 350.00 €
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 280.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 350.00 €
Type : Obole
Date: c. 330 AC.
Mint name / Town : Oponte, Locride
Metal : silver
Diameter : 11 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 0,75 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés. Amphore bien venue à la frappe. Très joli revers de style fin. Belle patine de collection ancienne gris foncé avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du docteur Thierry de Craeker
Obverse
Obverse description : Amphore surmontée de deux branches de vigne.
Obverse legend : LO/KR
Obverse translation : (Locride).
Reverse
Reverse description : Étoile à seize rais centrée d’un cercle pointé en cœur.
Commentary
Poids léger. Revers très ornementé avec un cercle constitué de sept globules centré en cœur et d’une étoile avec huit rais et huit demi-rais.
Lightweight. Highly ornamented reverse with a circle made up of seven globules centered in a heart and a star with eight rays and eight half-rays.
Lightweight. Highly ornamented reverse with a circle made up of seven globules centered in a heart and a star with eight rays and eight half-rays.
Historical background
LOCRIS - OPUS
(369-338 BC)
Oponte was the capital of Opontian Locrid. It was said to have been founded by Opous. It was the homeland of Patroclus and Ajax, son of Oileus. The Opontians fought with Leonidas at Thermopylae. The Locrians experienced their greatest expansion from the Peace of Antalcidas in 386 BC. After Philip II's victory at Chaeronea in 338 BC, the Locrians fell under Macedonian rule.
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