Live auction - bgr_511578 - THE ARGOLID - ARGOS Tétradrachme

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Estimate :	400 €
Price :	300 €
Maximum bid :	340 €
End of the sale :	29 October 2019 14:15:37
bidders :	2 bidders

Type : Tétradrachme

Date: c. 190 AC.

Mint name / Town : Argos, Argolide

Metal : silver

Diameter : 30 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 16,71 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan large bien centré des deux côtés avec le grènetis visible au droit. Frappe un peu molle sur la tête d’Héraklès. Joli revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine grise superficielle

Catalogue references :

M.1172 var. - MP.738 - Gülnar 2/-

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de la collection B. Odaert

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.

Reverse

Reverse description : Zeus aétophore, les jambes croisées, assis à gauche sur un trône sans dossier, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, tenant un aigle posé sur sa main droite et un long sceptre bouleté de la gauche ; dans le champ à gauche, un harpon pointé en haut ; monogramme sous le trône.

Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU/ (FA)// (ANTI).

Commentary

Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du British Museum (MP. 737, pl. XXXVIII). Seule une partie du monogramme est visible à l’exergue de notre pièce. Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous le proposons à la vente.

Historical background

THE ARGOLID - ARGOS

(3rd - 2nd century BC)

Coinage in the name and Alexander III type

Argos according to mythology had been one of the main cities of the kingdom of Agamemnon with Mycenae. Argos, very soon found itself the capital of Dorian amphictyonia. Phidion of Argos is described as one of the creators of Aegina coinage. The city of Argos dedicated a special cult to the solar Apollo, of which the wolf is one of the symbols and which the Argives chose for their coins, the manufacture of which began at the beginning of the 5th century BC.. -VS. The Argives opposed the Lacedaemonians. They remained neutral during the Persian invasion of Xerxes in 480 BC.. -VS. They captured Mycenae in 468 BC. -VS. Neutral at the start of the Peloponnesian War, Argos joined the Athenian alliance after the Peace of Nicias in 421 BC. -VS. Argos was defeated at Mantinea in 418 BC. -VS. and once again suffered the Spartan yoke. In 362, Argos allied with the Thebans, always against Sparta before falling under the protection of Philip II of Macedonia. After Alexander's death and the Lamiac War of 322 BC. -VS. , Argos entered the Achaean league in 280 BC. -VS. The league was dissolved in 146 BC. -VS. after the capture of Corinth by the Romans.