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v34_0080 - THRACE - ABDERA Tetrobole

THRACE - ABDERA Tetrobole AU/XF
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 300.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 387.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 490.00 €
Type : Tetrobole
Date: c. 385-375 AC.
Mint name / Town : Abdère
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 2,64 g.
Rarity : R3
Emission: 113e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, particulièrement bien centré des deux côtés, un peu court sur le museau du griffon au droit qui est de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Frappe un peu faible. Usure régulière. Très jolie patine de collection ancienne, gris foncé avec des reflets dorés
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Hirsch 160 des 23-25 novembre 1988, n° 80 (mal décrit)

Obverse


Obverse description : Griffon bondissant à gauche.
Obverse legend : ABD.
Obverse translation : (Adère).

Reverse


Reverse description : Tête juvénile de Dionysos à droite, imberbe avec une couronne de vigne dans un carré linéaire entouré de la légende ; le tout dans les restes d’un carré creux.
Reverse legend : MOL/PA/GO/REW.

Commentary


Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la collection Jameson III, n° 2207, pl. CVII. Semble beaucoup plus rare avec cette orthographe (Molpagoreo) que le type normal avec (Molpagorès).

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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