bgr_494687 - THRACE - ODESSOS Demi-unité
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Price : 250.00 €
Type : Demi-unité
Date: c. 200 AC.
Mint name / Town : Odessus, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 3,87 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais, bien centré des deux côtés. Belle tête d’Apollon. Joli revers de style fin. Très belle patine vert clair
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à droite, les cheveux longs tombant sur le cou, coiffée de la tainia (bandelette de laine) ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse
Reverse description : Le grand Dieu d’Odessa (Panysus) allongé sur une estrade, nu jusqu’à la ceinture, la tête de face, le bras droit appuyé sur une urne, le bras gauche reposant sur son genou ; au-dessus un thyrse ; à l’exergue, un monogramme.
Reverse legend : ODHSITWN/ (MIT)
Reverse translation : (d’Odessa).
Commentary
Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
This type seems much rarer than general works suggest.
This type seems much rarer than general works suggest.
Historical background
THRACE - ODESSOS
(3rd - 1st century BC)
Osupers was a Milesiac colony, placed on the banks of the Pont-Euxin. It had an independent coinage from the end of the 2nd century BC but most of its coins are tetradrachms imitating those of Alexander the Great which were minted in the course of the 3rd century and then during the reign of Mithridates VI (120-63 AC.). The coinage seems to be interrupted then to resume in the imperial period.
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