bga_1091554 - SPAIN - EMPORION (AMPURIAS) Drachme au pégase, Emporia
950.00 €(Approx. 1130.50$ | 826.50£)
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Type : Drachme au pégase, Emporia
Date: c. 240-212 AC.
Mint name / Town : Ampurias
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 4,37 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Belle drachme décentrée au revers. Usure fine et régulière. Patine grise aux légers reflets bleutés
Predigree :
Provient de la collection du Colonel Jean-Paul Beaulieu
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Perséphone à droite, les cheveux tirés en arrière, avec boucles d'oreilles ; deux dauphin devant le visage et un autre derrière le cou.
Reverse
Reverse description : Pégase volant à droite, les ailes déployées, légende entre la queue et les pattes arrières.
Reverse legend : EMPORITWN
Historical background
SPAIN - EMPORION (AMPURIAS)
(3rd century BC)
The Greek Emporion, the Roman Ampurias, today San Martin de Ampurias was founded around 580 BC, perhaps by Rhodian colonists like Rosas (Rhodè) or Phocaeans like Marseilles whose foundations are contemporary. It was one of the most important ports in the Western Mediterranean. It is necessary to evoke rather two cities: Palaïapolis and Neapolis which were built. The city seems to have developed rapidly thanks to its port which was to become one of the most important in the western Mediterranean..
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