Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XVII 28 Mar 2019
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Thracian Chersonesos, uncertain mint AR Stater. Circa 515-500 BC. Warrior (Amazon?) on horseback to right, holding spear in left hand and rein in right / Quadripartite incuse square, one section partially in relief, partially incuse. Seltman, Athens, 486 (A330/P416); Jameson 1649; Boston MFA 847; Kraay & Moorey, NC 141 (1981), p. 3, 4, pl. 1. 10.81g, 20mm.
Good Very Fine. Extremely Rare - one of very few known examples.
From the Thrax Collection;
Ex Gemini LLC, Auction IX, 9 January 2012, lot 71 (hammer: $27,500).
It was Charles Seltman who first attributed coins of this issue to the area of the Thracian Chersonesos in "Athens: its History and Coinage" (1924). Seltman posited that this coin was struck under the tyrant Miltiades II, who established a colony in the Thracian Chersonesos in circa 555 BC (see lots 429 & 430). In 512 Miltiades had been forced to submit to the Persian King Darios I after the latter had led a large army into the area, built a pontoon bridge across the Bosphoros and subdued the Getae and eastern Thrace as part of his war against the Scythians. This may have been the cause for this issue being struck on a weight standard approximating the Persian, this coin being roughly equivalent to two sigloi. This, together with the rude style of the obverse design, form the basis for Seltman's attribution to the Thracian Chersonesos and in the absence of any further information concerning its origin this makes it a significant monetary consequence of the Persian subjugation of the Thracian Chersonesos in this period.
Good Very Fine. Extremely Rare - one of very few known examples.
From the Thrax Collection;
Ex Gemini LLC, Auction IX, 9 January 2012, lot 71 (hammer: $27,500).
It was Charles Seltman who first attributed coins of this issue to the area of the Thracian Chersonesos in "Athens: its History and Coinage" (1924). Seltman posited that this coin was struck under the tyrant Miltiades II, who established a colony in the Thracian Chersonesos in circa 555 BC (see lots 429 & 430). In 512 Miltiades had been forced to submit to the Persian King Darios I after the latter had led a large army into the area, built a pontoon bridge across the Bosphoros and subdued the Getae and eastern Thrace as part of his war against the Scythians. This may have been the cause for this issue being struck on a weight standard approximating the Persian, this coin being roughly equivalent to two sigloi. This, together with the rude style of the obverse design, form the basis for Seltman's attribution to the Thracian Chersonesos and in the absence of any further information concerning its origin this makes it a significant monetary consequence of the Persian subjugation of the Thracian Chersonesos in this period.