Live auction - bgr_403475 - SOGDIANA - MAUES Tétradrachme

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Estimate :	700 €
Price :	no bid
Maximum bid :	no bid
End of the sale :	27 September 2016 14:39:34

Type : Tétradrachme

Date: c. IIe - IIIe siècle

Mint name / Town : Atelier incertain, Sogdiane

Metal : silver

Diameter : 28 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 8,64 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale. Belle tête stylisée. Revers stylisé aussi. Patine de collection

Catalogue references :

Morgan- - ISCH. - Mit. - HGCS. 12/- cf. p. 189, fig. 2

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Claude Silberstein en 2002 et de la collection D. C

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête diadémée à droite, coiffée de la tiare.

Reverse

Reverse legend : LÉGENDE DÉGÉNÉRÉE .

Reverse description : Personnage (Héraklès) nu assis à gauche sur un rocher, tenant un objet de la amin droite tendue (massue) s’appuyant de la main gauche sur le rocher.

Commentary

Ce tétradrachme est directement emprunté au monnayage du royaume de Bactriane pour Euthymède Ier (HGCS. 36) en passant par les imitations sogdiennes (HGCS. 60-61.

Historical background

SOGDIANA - MAUES

(2nd - 3rd century AD)

The coinage of Euthymedes I (c. 225-200 AC.) was widely copied and imitated, as it was very popular in the region of Samarkand. From the 2nd century AD, the degenerate head of Euthymedes was replaced by that of a monarch in the Parthian "style" borrowed from the tetradrachms of Ctesiphon. This type of "Bukhara" was abundantly minted for two centuries.