v49_0141 - KINGDOM OF THRACE - RHOEMETALCES I Unité
MONNAIES 49 (2011)
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 187.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 268.00 €
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 187.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 268.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 11AC. - 12 AD.
Mint name / Town : Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,59 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et épais, ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beaux portraits à l’usure superficielle, de haut relief, bien venus à la frappe. Très jolie patine marron lissée. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock CGB (1992)
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête nues accolées de Rhoémétalcès et de Pythodoris diadémées à droite.
Obverse legend : BASILEWS/ ROIMHTALKOU (Basileos Roimhtalkou)
Obverse translation : (du roi Rhoémétalcès).
Reverse
Reverse description : Tête nue d’Auguste à droite (O°).
Reverse legend : KAISAROS SEBASTOU, (Kaisaros Sebastou)
Reverse translation : (César Auguste).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Petites têtes. Pour ce type, les auteurs du Roman Imperial Coinage ont recensés 31 exemplaires avec un poids moyen de 9,66 g pour vingt-cinq pièces.
Heavyweight. Small heads. For this type, the authors of the Roman Imperial Coinage recorded 31 examples with an average weight of 9.66 g for twenty-five coins.
Heavyweight. Small heads. For this type, the authors of the Roman Imperial Coinage recorded 31 examples with an average weight of 9.66 g for twenty-five coins.
Historical background
KINGDOM OF THRACE - RHOEMETALCES I
(11 BC - 12 AD)
Rhoemetalkes I, Pythodoris and Augustus
Rhoemetalces is the son of Kotys and had been the guardian of the children of Kotys III. It was Augustus who entrusted him with the entire kingdom of Thrace in 11 BC, where he reigned for nearly twenty-five years. He remained the loyal ally of the Romans and besides himself or his wife Pythodoris, he had his protector Augustus and his wife Livia represented on his coinage. On his death in AD 12, Augustus divided the kingdom between Rhoemetalces' son, Kotys IV, and Rheskouporis III, a source of conflict that was to end with the former being assassinated by the latter. Eventually, the kingdom of Thrace became a Roman province in 46.
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