Live auction - bgr_554484 - ACHAEAN LEAGUE - SICYON Hemidrachme
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| Estimate : | 400 € |
| Price : | 240 € |
| Maximum bid : | 300 € |
| End of the sale : | 29 October 2019 14:16:38 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 160-146 AC
Mint name / Town : Sicyone, Sikyonie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 2,45 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire, légèrement décentré. Joli revers de style fin présentant une belle Colombe. Beau portrait de Zeus. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant du stock de Vinchon (1977)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Grand monogramme dans une couronne de laurier ; une colombe sous le monogramme.
Reverse legend : (AC)/ (ME)/ N-I
Historical background
ACHAEAN LEAGUE - SICYON
(II - I century BC)
Sicyone, at the mouth of the Isthmus of Corinth in the Peloponnese, was the smallest political entity in this region with Phlius which it touched. Landlocked between Achaia and Argolis, it had been described by Homer in the Iliad as having been part of the kingdom of Agamemnon. We have little information on the history of the city before the end of the Persian Wars except that the region was often devastated by the Athenians, in particular under Pericles in 454 BC, according to E. Babelon. Coinage would only begin to become important after the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC. After the First Macedonian War, Sicyon entered the Achaean League. The latter was dissolved in 146 BC after the fall and destruction of Corinth and the final enslavement of Greece.
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