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v45_0036 - THRACE - ABDERA Tétrobole

THRACE - ABDERA Tétrobole AU
MONNAIES 45 (2010)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 280.00 €
Type : Tétrobole
Date: c. 385-375 AC.
Mint name / Town : Thrace, Abdère
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 2,84 g.
Rarity : R3
Emission: 116e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan court, légèrement décentré au droit sur la tête du griffon. Joli revers. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse description : Griffon bondissant à gauche dont les pattes arrière reposent sur une colonne ionique.
Obverse legend : ABD.
Obverse translation : (Abdère).

Reverse


Reverse description : Canthare, accosté d’une feuille de vigne dans le champ inférieur droit, dans un carré linéaire entouré de la légende ; le tout dans les restes d’un carré creux.
Reverse legend : IPOM/NH/MWN.
Reverse translation : (Ipomnémon).

Commentary


Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la collection Mac Lean de Cambridge, n° 4011 (May, pl. XX, n° 439).

Historical background


THRACE - ABDERA

(5th - 4th century BC)

Abdera was founded in 656 BC.. -VS. on the southern coast of Thrace, not far from the mouth of the Nestos (Herodotus I, 168) by colonists coming from Clazomenes (Ionia). The new city was abandoned and it was only in 543 BC. -VS. that part of the inhabitants of Teos (Ionia), fleeing the Persian yoke, came to settle permanently in Abdera. The city then experienced great political and economic development.. The choice of the griffin as a monetary type in Abdera comes from its metropolis Teos. The city served as the headquarters of Xerxes during the Persian Wars. The city remained the main port under Persian domination until Cimon's victory at the mouth of the Eurymedon in 465 BC.. -VS. It then experienced a period of intense activity under the authority of the Delio-Athenian league to which it joined in 454 BC.. -VS. The city was besieged and taken by Thrasybulus, an Athenian general in 410 or 408 BC.. -VS. Having found freedom after the fall of Athens, she nevertheless had to appeal to her in 377 BC.. -VS. when the Triballes threatened its independence. It was Chabrias, an Athenian general who freed it. From 350 BC. -VS. , it entered the Macedonian orbit and then lost its commercial and strategic importance.

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