Live auction - bga_510762 - MASSALIA - MARSEILLE Hemiobole à la tête de "satyre"

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Estimate :	500 €
Price :	270 €
Maximum bid :	350 €
End of the sale :	04 December 2018 15:02:26
bidders :	2 bidders

Type : Hemiobole à la tête de "satyre"

Date: c. 425-400 AC

Mint name / Town : Marseille

Metal : silver

Diameter : 8 mm

Weight : 0,25 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier. Argent corné

Catalogue references :

LT.- - Br/M.- - Sch/L.- - Dicomon.4 a OBM, p 36

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête de dieu fleuve cornu à droite (un satyre ou le Lacydon ?).

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Reverse description : Roue à quatre rayons avec moyeu central évidé et entretoisées sur la jante.

Commentary

Ce type bien particulier se rencontre dans la région de Saint-Canadet. Moins d’une dizaine d’exemplaires sont signalés d'après le dernier article de J.-A. Chevillon .

Historical background

MASSALIA - MARSEILLE

(474-410 BC)

Marseille experienced great prosperity in the 5th century BC, thanks to the period of tranquility in the western Mediterranean after the Carthaginian defeat at Himera in 480 BC. The Etruscans were in turn defeated by the Syracusans at Cumae . For nearly seventy years the ships of Massali could quietly sail the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The Sicilian affair in 413 BC and the Athenian and then Carthaginian intervention, accompanied by the destruction of Agrigento, led to a serious conflict which was to last half a century and extended to Magna Graecia. (Southern Italy).