v34_0133 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PERSEUS Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 680.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
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Starting price : 680.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 171-168 AC.
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Amphipolis
Metal : silver
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 15,47 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait avec une jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets gris dorés. Revers de style fin
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Weil du 9 décembre 2003, n° 38 (taille de photo ridicule)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Persée à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à droite sur un foudre, les ailes déployées ; le tout entouré d'une couronne de chêne ; à l'exergue, une araire.
Reverse legend : BASI-LEWS// PER-SEWS// (MAR)/ (ANI)/ (HD)
Reverse translation : (du roi Persée).
Commentary
Cet exemplaire présente la particularité d’être frappé sur un étalon rhodien. L’exemplaire de la collection Alpha Bank n° 1132, pl. LIII est frappé sur un étalon attique (groupe IV, 173-172/171 avant J.-C.). L’exemplaire de l’Ashmolean Museum d’Oxford (n° 3276, pl. LXVII) est de poids rhodien. Trace de cassure de coin visible au droit devant le visage.
This example has the particularity of being struck on a Rhodian standard. The example in the Alpha Bank collection no. 1132, pl. LIII is struck on an Attic standard (group IV, 173-172/171 BC). The example in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford (no. 3276, pl. LXVII) is of Rhodian weight. Trace of die breakage visible on the right in front of the face
This example has the particularity of being struck on a Rhodian standard. The example in the Alpha Bank collection no. 1132, pl. LIII is struck on an Attic standard (group IV, 173-172/171 BC). The example in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford (no. 3276, pl. LXVII) is of Rhodian weight. Trace of die breakage visible on the right in front of the face
Historical background
MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PERSEUS
(179-168 BC)
Perseus, the eldest son of Philip V (221-179 AC.), succeeded his father and was the last king of Macedonia. After a promising start to his reign, Perseus came into conflict with the Romans, who, since the battle of Cynoscephali in 197 BC, had controlled Greece. The conflict with the Macedonians was brief, but violent. The Romans invaded Macedonia and crushed Perseus at the double battle of Pydna in 168 BC. Defeated by Paul-Émile, Perseus was taken to Rome with his two sons, participated in the Triumph of his conqueror and died two years later captive in Italy (see denier de la gens Æmilia n°10, minted in 62 BC and which commemorates this event).
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