v19_0040 - THRACE - ISTROS Drachme

MONNAIES 19 (2004)
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 350.00 €
Number of bids : 13
Maximum bid : 396.00 €

Type : Drachme

Date: c. 400-350 AC.

Mint name / Town : Istros

Metal : silver

Diameter : 18 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 6,25 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Très beaux portraits. Frappé sur un flan large avec des sujets bien centrés. Finement patiné des deux côtés

Catalogue references :

B. traité1664 . - BMC.3 - SB.- - GC.1669 var. - Cop.- - AMNG. 1/421

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Deux têtes masculines et imberbes opposées.

Reverse

Reverse description : Aigle volant à gauche attaquant un dauphin.

Reverse legend : ISTRIH/ DI.

Reverse translation : (Ister).

Historical background

THRACE - ISTROS

(4th - 2nd century BC)

Istros, a Milesian colony, located equidistant from Callatis and the mouths of the Danube, is in Lower Moesia. The Greek name gave its Latin name to the Danube (Danuvius). The two juvenile heads, comparable to the Dioscuri (Gemini), represent the mouths of the Danube (Ister).

THRACE - ISTROS Drachme XF

250.00 €

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THRACE - ISTROS Drachme AU/MS

700.00 €

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THRACE - ISTROS Monnaie coulée XF

100.00 €

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THRACE - ISTROS Trihemiobole AU/AU

350.00 €

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THRACE - ISTROS Trihemiobole AU/XF

300.00 €

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THRACE - ISTROS Trihemiobole AU/XF

260.00 €

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v19_0040 - THRACE - ISTROS Drachme

Obverse

Reverse

Historical background

THRACE - ISTROS

(4th - 2nd century BC)

Istros, a Milesian colony, located equidistant from Callatis and the mouths of the Danube, is in Lower Moesia. The Greek name gave its Latin name to the Danube (Danuvius). The two juvenile heads, comparable to the Dioscuri (Gemini), represent the mouths of the Danube (Ister).

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