bgr_275594 - MACEDONIA - CHALCIDIAN LEAGUE - OLYNTHUS Unité
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 195.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 195.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 379-348 AC.
Mint name / Town : Olynthe, Macédoine
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,28 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Belle petite tête d’Apollon. Joli revers bien de haut relief. Belle patine vert noir
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire a été acquis auprès de Claude Silberstein en juin 1996
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 droit que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 553).
Appears to be the same obverse die as the American Numismatic Society copy (ANS. 553)
Appears to be the same obverse die as the American Numismatic Society copy (ANS. 553)
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.
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