bgr_524596 - PHOCIS - DELPHI Trihemiobole
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Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 1 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 1 150.00 €
Type : Trihemiobole
Date: c. 450 AC.
Mint name / Town : Delphes, Phocide
Metal : silver
Diameter : 11,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 1,20 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, un peu court sur le museau de l’animal. Joli revers de style fin. Patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection B. Odaert
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de bélier à gauche ; au-dessous, petit dauphin nageant à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête et cou de chèvre de face entre deux dauphins divergents nageant vers le bas ; le tout dans un carré creux.
Reverse legend : DAL
Commentary
Poids léger. Exemplaire de très joli style pour un monnayage souvent fruste. Mêmes coins que les exemplaires de la collection BCD (n° 383-384, NAC. 55).
Lightweight. A very attractive example for an often crude coinage. Same dies as the examples in the BCD collection (no. 383-384, NAC. 55)
Lightweight. A very attractive example for an often crude coinage. Same dies as the examples in the BCD collection (no. 383-384, NAC. 55)
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.
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