Maison Palombo
Auction 19 12 Dec 2020
View prices realized
► Sale information
Find similar lots
Asie Mineure - Lycie - Phaselis - Statère (4ème siècle).
Abeille à la droite de la proue, unique ?
Magnifique exemplaire.
Exemplaire de la vente CNG 99 du 13 mai 2015, N° 280.
10.35g - Heipp-Tamer manque cf. série 6
Superbe – AU
When Ch. Heipp-Tamer published her study Die Münzprägung der lykischen Stadt Phaselis in griechischer Zeit (Saarbrucken 1993), she only knew two examples of her rare '6th series', but a group was offered for sale by CNG, in their auctions 99 of May 2015 (lots 275-289) and Triton XIX of January 2016 (lots 251-263), allowing to identify fourteen separate issues - distinguished by their control marks (cicadas, dolphins, gorgoneions, grapes, owls, serpents, shells, stars, tripods, Pegasos and Nike), and the cataloguer for CNG suggested that their striking might have continued until the 3rd century CA. In his words, " the three issues with Nike and tripod, as well as an issue with a wreath affixed to a pole on the deck of the prow, stand out, suggesting some sort of a victory reference. Whether any such victory would be a military or games-related event is unknown, as much of the historic details of Phaselis during this period are obscure". Local coinage had started very early, in around 550 BC, on the Lydo-Milesian standard, and Heipp-Tamer suggested a 4th century BC date for this series. The city of Phaselis had been founded circa 690 BC by settlers from Lindos on Rhodes, when Rhodian colonists also founded the city of Gela on Sicily. Located on an isthmus separating two harbours, it became the most important harbour city of eastern Lycia - but never belonged to the Lycian League (Strabo 667). First captured by Persians, it was later attacked by Cimon of Athens in 469/468 BC and enrolled in the Delian Confederacy, before being captured by Alexander the Great - who rendered its independence in 333 BC. The wealth of the city came from its strategic location (its ruins are found north of Tekirova in Antalya, Turkey), on the maritime route linking Greece to Syria, Palestine and Egypt. But its inhabitants were accused to have also practiced piracy, a plausible fact if one considers that both sides of this coin depict ship prows.
Abeille à la droite de la proue, unique ?
Magnifique exemplaire.
Exemplaire de la vente CNG 99 du 13 mai 2015, N° 280.
10.35g - Heipp-Tamer manque cf. série 6
Superbe – AU
When Ch. Heipp-Tamer published her study Die Münzprägung der lykischen Stadt Phaselis in griechischer Zeit (Saarbrucken 1993), she only knew two examples of her rare '6th series', but a group was offered for sale by CNG, in their auctions 99 of May 2015 (lots 275-289) and Triton XIX of January 2016 (lots 251-263), allowing to identify fourteen separate issues - distinguished by their control marks (cicadas, dolphins, gorgoneions, grapes, owls, serpents, shells, stars, tripods, Pegasos and Nike), and the cataloguer for CNG suggested that their striking might have continued until the 3rd century CA. In his words, " the three issues with Nike and tripod, as well as an issue with a wreath affixed to a pole on the deck of the prow, stand out, suggesting some sort of a victory reference. Whether any such victory would be a military or games-related event is unknown, as much of the historic details of Phaselis during this period are obscure". Local coinage had started very early, in around 550 BC, on the Lydo-Milesian standard, and Heipp-Tamer suggested a 4th century BC date for this series. The city of Phaselis had been founded circa 690 BC by settlers from Lindos on Rhodes, when Rhodian colonists also founded the city of Gela on Sicily. Located on an isthmus separating two harbours, it became the most important harbour city of eastern Lycia - but never belonged to the Lycian League (Strabo 667). First captured by Persians, it was later attacked by Cimon of Athens in 469/468 BC and enrolled in the Delian Confederacy, before being captured by Alexander the Great - who rendered its independence in 333 BC. The wealth of the city came from its strategic location (its ruins are found north of Tekirova in Antalya, Turkey), on the maritime route linking Greece to Syria, Palestine and Egypt. But its inhabitants were accused to have also practiced piracy, a plausible fact if one considers that both sides of this coin depict ship prows.