bgr_326019 - PAMPHYLIA - PERGA Tétradrachme
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Price : 350.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 350.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 17
Mint name / Town : Pergé, Pamphylie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 15,73 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large bien centré avec le grènetis visible au droit. Très belle tête d’Héraklès au droit. Frappe molle et tréflée au revers. Jolie contremarque dans la partie in férieure. Patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté, nouée sous le cou.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore assis à gauche sur un trône sans dossier, les jambes croisées, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, tenant un aigle posé sur sa main droite et un long sceptre bouleté de la gauche ; petite contremarque à la tête d’Hélios.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU/ IZ
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre/ an 17).
Commentary
Tétradrachme au nom et au type d’Alexandre III le Grand (336-323 avant J.-C.) posthume. Nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente. Nous avons sept exemplaires pour cette année (Colin) avec trois coins de droit et cinq coins de revers. Au revers nous avons une contremarque avec un tête de Sol de face. Cette contremarque se rencontre pour les ateliers de Phasélis, Aspendos et Pergé. Pour Pergé, nous avons un exemplaire de l’an 18 (MP. 2930b).
Tetradrachm in the name and type of Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC) posthumous. We have not found any relevant die identity. We have seven examples for this year (Colin) with three obverse dies and five reverse dies. On the reverse we have a countermark with a Sol head facing. This countermark is found for the mints of Phaselis, Aspendos and Perge. For Perge, we have a example from the year 18 (MP. 2930b)
Tetradrachm in the name and type of Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC) posthumous. We have not found any relevant die identity. We have seven examples for this year (Colin) with three obverse dies and five reverse dies. On the reverse we have a countermark with a Sol head facing. This countermark is found for the mints of Phaselis, Aspendos and Perge. For Perge, we have a example from the year 18 (MP. 2930b)
Historical background
PAMPHYLIA - PERGA
(221-188 BC)
Coinage in the name of Alexander III the Great type
Perge was an important city in Pamphylia located between the Kestros and Katarrhaktes rivers. The city was famous for its temple of Artemis and the cult that was returned to him. Pamphylia and Perge were the object of fratricidal struggles between Lagides and Seleucids. Perge had entered Egyptian orbit in the first quarter of the 3rd century BC before returning to Seleucid rule around 253 BC during the reign of Antiochus II (261-246 AC.) . Ptolemy III succeeded in reconquering it in 241 BC but it was no longer part of the Lagid conquests in 221 BC at the start of the reign of Ptolemy IV (221-204 AC.). Pergé seems to have become a free city which would then explain the use of a new era. Perge would at least have recognized the authority of the new Seleucid king, Antiochus III (223-187 BC). After the Battle of Magnesia in 190 BC and the proclamation of the freedom of the Pamphylian cities the following year by Cn. Manlius, Perge was attributed by the Treaty of Apamea (188 BC) to the Attalid kingdom of Eumenes II (197-160 BC).
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