v34_0104 - MACEDONIA - CHALCIDIAN LEAGUE - OLYNTHUS Tétradrachme

MACEDONIA - CHALCIDIAN LEAGUE - OLYNTHUS Tétradrachme XF

MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 750.00 €
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 sur un flan large et irrégulier à l’usure régulière, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable avec une patine grise épaisse qui recouvre l’ensemble de la pièce. Portrait un peu fruste. Joli revers. Métal légèrement granuleux

Catalogue references :

ANS.474

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XXIV, n° 56 et de MONNAIES 29, n° 22

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à droite.

Reverse

Reverse description : Cithare.

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

Reverse translation : (Des Chalcidique).

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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