THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBES, Uncertain. Circa 500-480 BC. AR Stater (20mm, 9.77 g). Mint in the region east of Mt. Pangaion. Near EF.

CNG Feature Auction 133
Lot: 138. Estimated: $ 1 000

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THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBES, Uncertain. Circa 500-480 BC. AR Stater (20mm, 9.77 g). Mint in the region east of Mt. Pangaion. Centaur advancing right, carrying off protesting nymph / Quadripartite incuse square. Tzamalis, Ethné, Group A.2, 19 (D8/R5) = Asyut 80 (this coin); Peykov Type I, A0600 (Orreskioi); HPM pl. VI, 17; HGC 3, –. Lightly toned, test cut on obverse. Near EF.

From the Santa Monica Collection, #3. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XXXI (18 March 1993), lot 102; 1968/9 Asyut Hoard (IGCH 1644 = CH 2, 17 = CH 4, 11 = CH 8, 44 = CH 9, 680).

The centaur-nymph motif was used by a number of Thraco-Macedonian tribes, and at least three tribes – the Orreskioi, Letaioi, and the Zaelioi – inscribed their ethnic on the obverse. The present coin, though, belongs to the unsigned issues that cannot yet be assigned to a particular tribe. Although Peykov and the cataloger of the ANS sylloge assumed these uninsigned issues were from the Orreskioi, Tzamalis’ die study asserts that such a conclusion is not supported by the evidence. The hoard evidence does support the prevailing dates for this coinage, though, and also indicates that the mint is likely located in the region just east of Mt. Pangaion. Such a location in close proximity to Thasos is also suggested by a close association between this coinage and the satyr-nymph coins struck on or nearby that island.

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