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EPEIROS. Dodona. Circa 168-148 BC. (Bronze, 25.5 mm, 16.87 g, 11 h), struck under Argeades Menedemos, priest of the temple of Zeus. APΓEAΔHΣ Head of Dodonian Zeus with oak wreath to right. Rev. ΜΕΝΕΔΗΜΟΣ / ΙΕΡΕΥΣ Draped bust of Artemis to right, quiver at shoulder. Franke group III, 12 (V5/R12). HGC 3, 234. SNG Copenhagen 139. Rare. Light deposits, otherwise, very fine.
From the B.L. collection, Switzerland.
Dodona was the second most famous oracle sanctuary of the Greeks after Delphi. Menedemos, who authorized this rare issue of bronze coins, was apparently a member of the noble Argead family, and was the chief priest of the temple of Zeus in Dodona.
The dating of this (and of two other issues under the same priest/magistrate) is not beyond doubt. Franke proposed the currently used dating based on the information available to him at the time. However, based on numismatic parameters, including stylistic comparisons and metrological observations, A. Betsiou, Reconsidering the Interpretation and Dating of Ancient Coins: The Case of Bronze Coins from Dodona in the Name of Menedemos Argeades, in: GEPHYRA 13 (2016), 127-148, suggests a date for these issues after the 2nd half of the 1st c. BC.
From the B.L. collection, Switzerland.
Dodona was the second most famous oracle sanctuary of the Greeks after Delphi. Menedemos, who authorized this rare issue of bronze coins, was apparently a member of the noble Argead family, and was the chief priest of the temple of Zeus in Dodona.
The dating of this (and of two other issues under the same priest/magistrate) is not beyond doubt. Franke proposed the currently used dating based on the information available to him at the time. However, based on numismatic parameters, including stylistic comparisons and metrological observations, A. Betsiou, Reconsidering the Interpretation and Dating of Ancient Coins: The Case of Bronze Coins from Dodona in the Name of Menedemos Argeades, in: GEPHYRA 13 (2016), 127-148, suggests a date for these issues after the 2nd half of the 1st c. BC.