Live auction - bgr_349702 - THRACE - BYZANTION Statère d’or

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Estimate :	4 500 €
Price :	3 700 €
Maximum bid :	3 700 €
End of the sale :	31 March 2015 14:02:00
bidders :	2 bidders

Type : Statère d’or

Date: c. 150 AC.

Mint name / Town : Thrace, Byzance

Metal : gold

Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰

Diameter : 21 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 8,36 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un flan ovale et très large, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait fantastique de très haut relief, bien venu à la frappe, légèrement stylisé. Merveilleux revers, finement détaillé. Jolie patine de collection. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine

Catalogue references :

M.171 - GC.1590 var. - HGM.- p. 142 , pl. XXXVIII/I

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de la vente CNG. (Internet) 324, n° 8

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête imberbe d'Alexandre le Grand sous les traits de Zeus-Ammon, cornu et diadémé à droite.

Reverse

Reverse description : Athéna nicéphore assise à gauche sur un trône, tenant une petite Niké de la main droite qui couronne le nom de Lysimaque et le coude gauche reposant sur un bouclier orné d'un masque de lion ; dans le champ à gauche, un monogramme, un autre sur le trône ; un trident tourné à gauche à l’exergue orné de deux minuscules dauphins.

Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ LUSIMCOU/ BU/ (KF).

Reverse translation : (du roi Lysimaque).

Commentary

Nous n’avons pas de liaison de coin pertinente pour ce type de monnayage. Ce type ressemble tout à fait à ceux que l’on rencontre entre 100 et 72 pour les ateliers de la Mer Noire et qui ont servi a financer Mithridates VI du Pont dans la région.

Historical background

THRACE - BYZANTION

(3rd - 2nd century BC)

Coinage in name of Lysimachos

Byzantium, the future Constantinople and then Istanbul, was founded in 657 BC by Megarian settlers from central Greece. The city was besieged by Philip II of Macedonia in 340/339 BC and found itself in the share of Lysimachus during the division of the empire of Alexander. After Couroupédion, it regained its independence. Its location at the entrance to the Black Sea at the mouth of the Propontis as well as its rich fertile plains on the coast ensured great prosperity. The change of monetary standard in 357 BC seems to indicate a modification of the commercial circuits of the city which is then oriented more towards the eastern Mediterranean and Rhodes than towards the Black Sea where the Persian standard was dominant. When the city obtained its autonomy at the beginning of the 3rd century, it resumed, according to the work of Henri Seyrig, the typology of the Lysimaques which will be minted in the city for more than 150 years..