bpv_352669 - MYSIA – KYZIKOS / CYZICUS Bronze
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 450.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 450.00 €
Type : Bronze
Date: c. 253-268
Mint name / Town : Cyzique, Mysie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,51 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait du héros éponyme de la cité. Revers inhabituel. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XXVIII, n° 57 et de la collection d’Élisabeth
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête diadémée du héros Cyzicos à droite ; un serpent sous la tête.
Obverse legend : KU-ZIKOS/
Reverse
Reverse description : Déméter (Cérès) debout à gauche, drapée, tenant des épis de la main droite et une torche de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : ASKLHPI-ADIOU KIZIKH/NWN - [NEOK]
Reverse translation : ( Asklépedios de Cyzique décorée).
Commentary
Semble complètement inédit et non répertorié avec ce personnage au revers. Manque à tous les ouvrages consultés. Sur cet exemplaire, les épis sont mal formés et la torche est pratiquement invisible et ressemble plus à un sceptre long.
Appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted with this figure on the reverse. Missing from all consulted works. On this example, the ears are poorly formed and the torch is practically invisible and looks more like a long scepter.
Appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted with this figure on the reverse. Missing from all consulted works. On this example, the ears are poorly formed and the torch is practically invisible and looks more like a long scepter.
Historical background
MYSIA – KYZIKOS / CYZICUS
(1st century BC - 3rd century AD)
Cyzicus, a colony of Miletus founded in the 8th century BC, is placed on the Propontis on the island of Arktonnesos. Its political and economic situation was preponderant between Pont-Euxin and the Aegean Sea by controlling the Propontis at the outlet of the Hellespont. Coinage began at the end of the 7th century BC. An important coinage of electrum was minted between 600 and 330 BC with the tuna as its symbol. The coinage with the portrait of Koré began around 390 BC and ended with the arrival of Alexander the Great in Asia Minor. The city was supposed to be the place where Persephone was abducted by Hades. The lion on the reverse was to be dedicated to Apollo, considered the father of the city's founder. The city in Roman times prospered economically and experienced a remarkable architectural extension.
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