bgr_276415 - PHOCIS - DELPHI Trihemiobole

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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 750.00 €

Type : Trihemiobole

Date: c. 450 AC.

Mint name / Town : Phocide, Delphes

Metal : silver

Diameter : 11,5 mm

Orientation dies : 4 h.

Weight : 1,39 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Joli droit, bien venu à la frappe. Revers à l’usure régulière. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés

Catalogue references :

BMC.4 pl. IV/3 - GC.2362 (225£)

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Weil de Neuilly d’octobre 2002

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête de bélier à droite ; au-dessous, petit dauphin nageant à droit.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Reverse description : Tête et cou de chèvre de face entre deux dauphins divergents nageant vers le bas ; le tout dans un carré creux.

Commentary

Exemplaire de très joli style pour un monnayage souvent fruste.

Historical background

PHOCIS - DELPHI

(5th century BC)

Delphi was located in Phocis at the foot of Mount Parnassus. Delphi owes its name to Dephos, son of Apollo. Dedicated to the cult of Apollo, it was the most important Panhellenic sanctuary in the Greek world. The Pythia, priestess of Apollo gave oracles there. Delphi was supposed to be located at the center of the world which housed the omphalos (navel of the world). Between the 6th and 4th centuries, Delphi experienced an unexpected destiny for a mountainous and poor region. The sanctuary knew an unequaled influence which made it the center of the Greek world. At the end of the Third Sacred War in 346 BC, the sanctuary fell under Macedonian rule.