v34_0132 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PERSEUS Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 1 100.00 €
Estimate : 2 200.00 €
Realised price : 1 300.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 1 650.00 €
Starting price : 1 100.00 €
Estimate : 2 200.00 €
Realised price : 1 300.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 1 650.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 174-173 AC.
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Amphipolis
Metal : silver
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,68 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large et complet des deux côtés. Portrait magnifique. Revers bien venu à la frappe de style fin. Jolie patine superficielle avec des reflets dorés, légèrement tachée au revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Gorny 56, 7 octobre 1991, n° 191 (1750€) et de MONNAIES IV, n° 42
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 étoile à huit rais.
Reverse legend : BASI-LEWS// PER-SEWS/ (IW)/ (SW)/ (IW)
Reverse translation : (du roi Persée).
Commentary
Ce type de tétradrachme, d’étalon attique est beaucoup plus rare que les tétradrachmes d’étalon rhodien. Dans le trésor macédonien de 1990, enfoui vers 170 avant J.-C. et qui aurait contenu une vingtaine de tétradrachmes, il y avait quatorze pièces lourdes pour dix variétés, mais aucune de notre type.
This type of tetradrachm, of the Attic standard, is much rarer than the tetradrachms of the Rhodian standard. In the Macedonian hoard of 1990, buried around 170 BC and which is said to have contained about twenty tetradrachms, there were fourteen heavy coins for ten varieties, but none of our type.
This type of tetradrachm, of the Attic standard, is much rarer than the tetradrachms of the Rhodian standard. In the Macedonian hoard of 1990, buried around 170 BC and which is said to have contained about twenty tetradrachms, there were fourteen heavy coins for ten varieties, but none of our type.
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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