v49_0227 - TROAS - CEBRENE Quart d’unité, (PBQ, Æ 10)
MONNAIES 49 (2011)
Starting price : 110.00 €
Estimate : 170.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 110.00 €
Estimate : 170.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Quart d’unité, (PBQ, Æ 10)
Date: c. 350-300 AC.
Mint name / Town : Troade, Kebren
Metal : copper
Diameter : 9,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 1,04 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, bien centré des deux côtés. Droit inhabituel. Jolie patine vert olive foncé, marbrée de rouge
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock CGB (1992)
Obverse
Obverse description : Deux têtes de bélier affrontées.
Reverse
Reverse legend : MONOGRAMME (KE) RÉTROGRADE.
Reverse translation : (Kebren).
Commentary
Ce monnayage semble appartenir à un système monétaire cohérent du bronze qui a dû comprendre de nombreuses cités de Troade.
This coinage seems to belong to a coherent bronze monetary system which must have included many cities of Troas
This coinage seems to belong to a coherent bronze monetary system which must have included many cities of Troas
Historical background
TROAS - CEBRENE
(5th - 4th century BC)
Cebren or Kebren was a city state located inland between Ilion and Antandros. The city was abandoned by its inhabitants at the end of the 4th century in order to go and found Alexandria of Troas in 310 BC at the instigation of Antigone le Borgne. As for the city of Cebren, it was renamed Antiocheia in honor of Antiochus I, Seleucid king.
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