bgr_556092 - MACEDONIA - AKANTHOS Tetrobole

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Price : 225.00 €

Type : Tetrobole

Date: c. 470-400 AC.

Mint name / Town : Acanthe, Macédoine

Metal : silver

Diameter : 16 mm

Weight : 2,37 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré à l’usure régulière. A été nettoyé anciennement. Patine grise superficielle

Catalogue references :

ANS.38 - GC.1369 var. - BMC.34 - HGCS. 3/1-392

Obverse

Obverse description : Protomé de taureau agenouillé à gauche, tournant la tête à droite ; au-dessus, swastika et feuille d’olivier.

Reverse

Reverse description : Carré creux quadripartite.

Commentary

Poids léger.

Historical background

MACEDONIA - AKANTHOS

(6th - 5th century BC)

Acanthe, founded in the 7th century BC, was a colony of Andros, an island in the Aegean Sea located on the peninsula of Acté. The workshop had a very important production from the end of the 6th century BC thanks to the mines which were in this region.

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bgr_556092 - MACEDONIA - AKANTHOS Tetrobole

Obverse

Reverse

Commentary

Historical background

MACEDONIA - AKANTHOS

(6th - 5th century BC)

Acanthe, founded in the 7th century BC, was a colony of Andros, an island in the Aegean Sea located on the peninsula of Acté. The workshop had a very important production from the end of the 6th century BC thanks to the mines which were in this region.

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