Zeus ed Eracle su un Hekte di Lesbo

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Nella Leu Numismatik WEB AUCTION 10 – PART 1 del 7 dicembre prossimo è presentato questo esemplare in elettro con la raffigurazione caratteristica del diritto dei tetradrammi di Filippo II (Zeus) su una faccia e di Alessandro III (Eracle) sull’altra faccia.

Starting price: 200 CHF

Lot 429. Imitating Philip II and Alexander III of Macedon
LESBOS. Mytilene. Circa 377-326 BC. Hekte (Electrum, 11 mm, 2.54 g, 12 h), circa 333-326. Laureate head of Zeus to right. Rev. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, within linear square. Bodenstedt 103. SNG Copenhagen -. SNG von Aulock 1711. Rare and unusually attractive. Good very fine.

From a European collection, formed before 2005.

Mytilene, like all of Lesbos, had close ties to the Macedonian kings and was part of the Anti-Persian alliance formed by Philip II and Alexander 'the Great'. Persian forces conquered the city in 333 BC but were expelled soon thereafter - this is when our coin, which so obviously copies the Tetradrachms of Philip II and Alexander, was most likely issued.

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Esemplare della Leu Numismatik, Web Auction1, lot 521, 25.06.2017

Greek
LESBOS. Mytilene. Circa 377-326 BC. Hekte (Electrum, 10 mm, 2.50 g, 12 h), circa 333-326. Laureate head of Zeus to right. Rev. Head of youthful Herakles to right, wearing lion skin, within linear square. Bodenstedt 103. SNG Copenhagen -. SNG von Aulock 1711. Very rare. Die rust on the obverse, otherwise, good very fine.
 

From a European collection, formed before 2005.

 

Starting price: 300 CHF Result: 340 CHF

 

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Esemplare della NAC 64, lot 831, 17.05.2012

Greek Coins
Lesbos, Mytilene
Hecte circa 377-326, EL 2.57 g. Laureate head of Zeus Melichios r. Rev. Head of young Heracles r., wearing lion’s skin, within linear frame. SNG von Aulock 1711. Bodenstedt 103 a/a. Obverse slightly off-centre, otherwise extremely fine.

 

Starting price: 1.400 CHF, Estimate: 1.750, CHF Result: 1.800 CHF