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Price : 350.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 100-65 AC.
Mint name / Town : Messembria, Thrace
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 15,97 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire sur un flan très irrégulier, bien centré au droit mais légèrement décentré au revers. Petite fissure visible à 6h au droit. Beau portrait au droit. Légères traces de tréflage au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe d'Héraklès à droite, coiffé de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore trônant à gauche sur un siège, tenant un aigle de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : [B]ASILEW[S]// ALEXANDRO[U]// BAK/QES
Commentary
Ce type tardif a été copié par les Celtes du Danube, comme le fait remarquer M. Kostial dans la collection Lanz (n° 887). Il est tardif et les copies celtiques sont postérieures aux prototypes de Messembria.
This late type was copied by the Danube Celts, as Mr. Kostial points out in the Lanz collection (no. 887). It is late and the Celtic copies are later than the prototypes of Messembria
This late type was copied by the Danube Celts, as Mr. Kostial points out in the Lanz collection (no. 887). It is late and the Celtic copies are later than the prototypes of Messembria
Historical background
THRACE - MESEMBRIA
(1st century BC)
Coinage in the name of Alexander the Great
Messembria was an important colony of Megara, founded around 510 BC. It was located on Pont-Euxin, bordered by the Black Sea, north of Apollonia Pontica. Port Thrace, it welcomed refugees from Byzantium and Calchedonia during the Ionian revolt against Darius at the beginning of the 5th century BC. The name of the city itself means (south = meshmbria in Greek). Messembria worshiped the solar Apollo of Megara, its metropolis. The city was conquered by the Romans in 72 BC.
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