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bgr_420792 - LYDIA - SARDIS Unité

LYDIA - SARDIS Unité AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 175.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 180-133 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sardes, Lydie
Metal : bronze or copper
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,53 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait d’Artémis. Revers de style fin bien venu à la frappe
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de N&M et de la collection Laurent F

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste d’Artémis drapé à droite, les cheveux relevés, l’arc et le carquois sur l’épaule .

Reverse


Reverse description : Athéna nicéphore debout à gauche, casquée, tenant une niké de la main droite et un bouclier et une javeline de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : SARDIANWN/ ALEXANDR/ DIOKLEo.
Reverse translation : (de Sardes/ Alexandros Diocleo).

Commentary


Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de la collection von Aulock (Aulock n° 3131, pl. 100.

Historical background


LYDIA - SARDIS

(188-133 BC)

Sardis was the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Lydia. Placed on the Hermos, it had been conquered in 546 BC by the Persians who dethroned its last king, Croesus. Alexander the Great captured it in 334 BC when it had become the main satrapy capital of Asia Minor. It then passed into the hands of the Diadochi, then the Epigones before finally falling between those of the Attalids after 189 BC and the defeat of Magnesia. The Peace of Apamea, the following year, made Eumenes II of Pergamon the great victor in the war against the Seleucids. Sardis had a scanty cistophoric silver coinage and a diversified bronze coinage until the Roman conquest in 133 BC..

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