v49_0208 - MYSIA - PERGAMON Unité, (MB, Æ 23)
MONNAIES 49 (2011)
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Unité, (MB, Æ 23)
Date: c. 133-100 AC.
Mint name / Town : Mysie, Pergame
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,53 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré. Très beau buste d’Athéna. Joli revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Patine marron superficielle
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Poinsignon (1995)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste casqué et drapé d’Athéna (Minerve) à gauche, coiffée du casque corinthien à cimier.
Reverse
Reverse description : Asklépios (Esculape) debout de face, tenant de la main droite un kyrekéion (caducée).
Reverse legend : PERGAMHNWN
Reverse translation : (de Pergame).
Commentary
Sur certains exemplaires au droit, nous trouvons sous le buste d’Athéna le nom d’un magistrat (Mithridate) ou le nom du roi du Pont, Mithridates VI du Pont. Ici, ce nom n’est pas visible.
Historical background
MYSIA - PERGAMON
(133-67 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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