MDC Monnaies de Collection
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ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
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144
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ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
See original version (French)
Estimate €400
Voluntary lot
Description
ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
Bithynia, Heraclea Pontica, Clearchus of Heraclea, tyrant (365–353 BC). Diobole ND (364–352 BC), Heraclea on the Pontus.
Obverse: Head of Heracles facing left, wearing the lion’s skin.
Reverse: HPAK / ΛEIA around a club.
HGC 7, 474; Silver – 1.32 g – 10 mm – 3 h
Acquired from Platt in 1993.
On a slightly oblong flan, with good centring and a fine grey collector’s patina. Superb.
The Bithynian coastal city of Heraclea was founded around 550 BC by Megarian and Boeotian colonists, who rapidly developed two artificial harbours, a fortification wall and a substantial fleet, making the city a major naval power. Clearchus I was established as the city’s first tyrant around 364 BC. Following his assassination in 353/352 BC, his brother Satyros took power and acted as guardian to his sons, Timothy and Dionysius, until they began to rule jointly around 345 BC.
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