Catalogus
Volledige afbeeldingen bekijken — gratis registratie
Doorgaan met Google — het is gratis
of registreer met e-mail
Waarom registreren? Alleen om bots buiten ons catalogus te houden. Uw e-mail blijft privé — we delen het nooit en sturen u niets zonder uw toestemming. Dat garanderen wij u!
Stater - Lykourgos
| Uitgever | Akarnanian Confederacy |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 250 BC - 200 BC |
| Type | Log in om details te zien |
| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Gewicht | Log in om details te zien |
| Diameter | Log in om details te zien |
| Dikte | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Techniek | Hammered |
| Oriëntatie | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
| Referentie(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | Bearded head of the river-god Acheloos facing right, adorned with a wreath of reeds and displaying the characteristic bull's horn above the forehead, rendered in fine high-relief Hellenistic style. The naturalistic facial features include a short beard and flowing wavy hair. The magistrate's name ΛYKOYPΓOΣ is inscribed vertically in the left field in Greek characters. |
|---|---|
| Schrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Schrift keerzijde | Greek |
| Opschrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Rand | Log in om details te zien |
| Muntplaats | Log in om details te zien |
| Oplage | Log in om details te zien |
| Aanvullende informatie |
The Akarnanian Confederacy was one of the more durable federal experiments in ancient Greece, and its silver coinage reflects a deliberate political assertion of collective identity at a moment when Macedonian influence pressed heavily on the western Greek world. The confederation controlled strategically vital territory along the Ambracian Gulf, and maintaining a recognizable federal coinage was as much a diplomatic signal as an economic necessity.
The Lykourgos stater series is documented across multiple major collections — Dewing, Luynes, Lockett, Copenhagen — suggesting reasonable surviving numbers relative to many Akarnanian issues, though fine specimens remain genuinely difficult to source.