MDC Monnaies de Collection
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ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
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183
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ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
See original version (French)
Estimate €800
Voluntary lot
Description
ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
Ionia, Phocaea. Electrum hekte (one-sixth of a stater) ND (c. 360 BC), Phocaea.
Obverse: Head of Queen Omphale facing left, clad in the lion’s skin with the club behind her shoulder; below, a small seal.
Reverse: Four-part repoussé square.
Bodenstedt 107; Electrum – 2.54 g – 10 mm – 12 h
On a thick flan. Slight traces of wear on the surface. Light patina. Superb.
For the murder of Iphitos, Heracles was ordered by the Oracle of Delphi at Xenocleia to submit as a slave to Queen Omphale of Lydia for one year. During this time, he was forced to perform women’s tasks, even going so far as to wear women’s clothing and hold a basket of wool whilst Omphale and her maids spun. Ovid tells us that Omphale even donned the skin of the Nemean lion and brandished Heracles’ olive-wood club.
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