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Lot 58 - TANZANIA - GERMAN EAST AFRICA under Wilhelm II (1888-1918) 15 Gold elephant rupees 1916 T = Tabora. (7,50 g) Rare. T.B. A somewhat crude emergency mintage by German troops facing an alliance of British and Belgian troops. A monetary workshop was set up in Tabora, now Tanzania, in a railway carriage, and only 9803 examples were minted. German East Africa was a German colony that extended over present-day Burundi, Rwanda and mainland Tanzania. Created in the 1880s, it was conquered by the British and Belgian armies during the First World War and fragmented at the end of the war into Ruanda-Urundi (Belgian Colonial Empire) and Tanganyika (British Empire). From a strategic point of view, although the Germans continued to fight until November 1918, the British controlled the towns of Dar es Salam and Tanga on the coast, and Tabora inland from March 1916, with Tanga not falling until July. At the same time, the entire railroad was under British control. By mid-1916, the almost defeated Germans were committing only guerrilla warfare in very isolated and unstrategic areas. The Treaty of Versailles divides up the German colony. Belgium receives Ruanda-Urundi and, in addition, the concession of a railroad line from the Belgian Congo to East Africa, through the former German colony to a free port on the Indian Ocean. Portugal obtained the Quionga triangle to the south of Rovuma, attached to present-day Mozambique, and Great Britain inherited the rest, i.e. the territory of present-day Tanzania, which it named Tanganyika, but without the archipelago of Zanzibar, which was given the status of a British protectorate. Expert: Françoise BERTHELOT-VINCHON

Estim. 3 000 - 3 200 EUR

Lot 83 - GAULE - MASSALIA circa 125-90 Draped, diademed bust of Artemis right, quiver on left shoulder. R/. Lion standing left, raising right front paw. Below, Δ. In exergue, AΛ. Light silver drachma (2.79 g). Nice bluish patina. A very fine example. Expert : Madame Françoise BERTHELOT-VINCHON MASSALIA Marseille Coins first appeared in Gaul in the 6th century B.C. through the Greek colony of Marseille, the first monetary workshop on French soil. Marseille or Massalia was a Phocaean colony founded not far from the Rhone delta around 600 BC by Greeks from Phocaea, a city in Asia Minor. The Phocaeans wanted to promote trading posts to rival the Carthaginians and Etruscans for domination of the western Mediterranean. They settled in the Lacydon inlet, which today forms the Old Port. As early as the 6th century, the Massaliotes placed themselves under the protection of Delphian Apollo and Artemis, both of whom can be seen on the city's coins. Coinage therefore began at the end of the 6th century and continued until 49 BC. The cult of Artemis The temple of Artemis Ephesia was a sanctuary in ancient Massalia. The sanctuary is linked to the mythology surrounding the founding of the city of Massalia by the Greeks in the 7th century B.C. It was a temple dedicated to the Ephesian version of Artemis, and her cult in Massalia was closely linked to her cult in Ephesus . One of Massalia's three most important sanctuaries, alongside the temple of Apollo Delphinios and the temple of Athena.

Estim. 150 - 180 EUR