Bruun Rasmussen
Auction 894 12 May 2020
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Coins // Ancient coins // Greece // Asia Minor
Satraps of Caria, Hidrieos (Idrieus), 351 - 344 BC, Tetradrachm, Halicarnassus, BMC 1, Babelon, Traité pl. XC, 8, cf. SNG Berry 1113, 15.29 g - an exceptional, very high-relief example of remarkable beauty.
Demosthenes describes Hidreios as one of the most wealthy and powerful of the princes of Asia and the present issue seems to have been considerable. The technical challenge of creating a miniature art portrait en face is enormous and the artistical quality of the workmanship varies considerably. This particular set of dies however is absolutely outstanding and the facing head of Apollo, god of the sun, art, truth and prophecy, seems to epitomize the classical style of the ancient miniature art combining idealized realism with a truly emotional expression.
Ex. UBS, Auction 63, 2005, lot 193; Another example struck from the same dies were sold for 34,000 $ as lot 44 in the Millenia" auction, 2008 (Ira and Larry Goldberg);
Ex. AMA coll. (Ancient Miniature Art collection).
The present example is featured as number 30.6 in the newly published book by Henrik Bo Andersen, Apollo to Apollo: The Hunt for the Divine and Eternal Beauty (ISBN 978-87-970890-0-2) and is illustrated on a full plate (p. 162).
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Estimate: 100000 DKK / 13500 EUR"
Satraps of Caria, Hidrieos (Idrieus), 351 - 344 BC, Tetradrachm, Halicarnassus, BMC 1, Babelon, Traité pl. XC, 8, cf. SNG Berry 1113, 15.29 g - an exceptional, very high-relief example of remarkable beauty.
Demosthenes describes Hidreios as one of the most wealthy and powerful of the princes of Asia and the present issue seems to have been considerable. The technical challenge of creating a miniature art portrait en face is enormous and the artistical quality of the workmanship varies considerably. This particular set of dies however is absolutely outstanding and the facing head of Apollo, god of the sun, art, truth and prophecy, seems to epitomize the classical style of the ancient miniature art combining idealized realism with a truly emotional expression.
Ex. UBS, Auction 63, 2005, lot 193; Another example struck from the same dies were sold for 34,000 $ as lot 44 in the Millenia" auction, 2008 (Ira and Larry Goldberg);
Ex. AMA coll. (Ancient Miniature Art collection).
The present example is featured as number 30.6 in the newly published book by Henrik Bo Andersen, Apollo to Apollo: The Hunt for the Divine and Eternal Beauty (ISBN 978-87-970890-0-2) and is illustrated on a full plate (p. 162).
EF
Estimate: 100000 DKK / 13500 EUR"