v24_0056 - MACEDONIA - CHALCIDIAN LEAGUE - OLYNTHUS Tétradrachme

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MONNAIES 24 (2005)
Starting price : 950.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
unsold lot

Type : Tétradrachme

Date: 420-392 AC.

Mint name / Town : Olynthe

Metal : silver

Diameter : 25,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 13,54 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement identifiable avec une patine grise épaisse qui recouvre l’ensemble de la pièce. Métal légèrement piqué. Joli revers. Flan irrégulier

Catalogue references :

ANS.474 var

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à droite.

Reverse

Reverse description : Cithare.

Reverse legend : C-A-L/ KID/ EWN.

Commentary

Poids léger.

Historical background

MACEDONIA - CHALCIDIAN LEAGUE - OLYNTHUS

(432-348 BC)

In 433 BC, Perdiccas II, King of Macedonia raised Olynthe and made it the capital of what was to become the Chalcidic League in order to thwart the aims of Athens in the region. Brasidas at the head of the Lacedaemonian fleet rallied the region against the hegemony of Athens, after the defection of Amphipolis. The Peace of Nicias in 421 BC guaranteed the freedom of the cities of Chalkidiki, including Olynthus, which then experienced an intense period of economic development. Olynthe fell under Spartan domination in 379 BC. The city had to face the Macedonian ambitions of Philip II. Olynthus was taken and destroyed by Philip II in 347 BC and its population enslaved.

MACEDONIA - CHALCIDIAN LEAGUE - OLYNTHUS Hemiobole AU

280.00 €

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