v49_0147 - MACEDONIA - CHALCIDIAN LEAGUE - OLYNTHUS Unité, (PB, Æ 17)

MACEDONIA - CHALCIDIAN LEAGUE - OLYNTHUS Unité, (PB, Æ 17) XF

MONNAIES 49 (2011)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot

Type : Unité, (PB, Æ 17)

Date: c. 379-348 AC.

Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Olynthe

Metal : copper

Diameter : 17 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 4,15 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait d’Apollon. Joli revers bien venu à la frappe servi par une jolie patine vert clair et sable

Catalogue references :

Laffaille03 - ANS.555 - Cop.246

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XXVI, n° 38 (2006)

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à droite, les cheveux longs tombant sur la nuque.

Reverse

Reverse description : Cithare.

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

Reverse translation : (de Chalcidique).

Commentary

Semble de même coin de revers que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society.

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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