bgr_287295 - MYSIA - PERGAMON Demi-unité
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 175.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 175.00 €
Type : Demi-unité
Date: c. 190-133 AC.
Mint name / Town : Pergame, Mysie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,33 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très joli droit. Beau revers. Jolie patine vert foncé
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire a été acquis en 1987
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Asklépios (Esculape) à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Serpent d’Asklépios enroulé autour d’un bâton (kerykeion).
Commentary
Au revers le bâton avec le serpent enroulé autour est l’épisème d’Asklépios avant qu’il ne se voit attribuer définitivement le caducée de son père Hermès.
On the reverse, the staff with the snake coiled around it is the episema of Asklepios before he was definitively awarded the caduceus of his father Hermes
On the reverse, the staff with the snake coiled around it is the episema of Asklepios before he was definitively awarded the caduceus of his father Hermes
Historical background
MYSIA - PERGAMON
(190-133 BC)
Pergame, located about twenty kilometers from the Mysian coast was in a fertile region. The city experienced a period of splendor under the energetic domination of the Attalids. Pergamos had been the place where the eunuch Philetario kept the treasure of Lysimachus, composed of more than 9,000 talents (more than 200 tons of metal). Philetario first betrays Lysimachus for Seleucus, before proclaiming himself independent, keeping the jackpot for his own account, the origin of the proverbial prosperity of Pergame. The new kingdom would experience significant economic prosperity after the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC. By dying in 133 BC, Attalus III bequeathed his kingdom to the Romans who created the province of Asia with Pergamum for capital. The city was famous for its library and its sanctuary dedicated to Asclepius.
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