E-auction 152-90334 - bgr_383164 - LYDIA - SARDIS Unité
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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | 115 € |
| Maximum bid : | 150 € |
| End of the sale : | 14 March 2016 14:03:30 |
| bidders : | 10 bidders |
Type : Unité
Date: c. 88 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sardes, Lydie
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,88 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Belle tête de Dionysos. Revers inhabituel. Jolie patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Dionysos à droite couronné de lierre les cheveux longs tombant sur le cou.
Reverse
Reverse description : Panthère passant à gauche, levant l’antérieur droit et tenant une lance brisée transversale.
Reverse legend : SARDI/ANWN/ (MUQ).
Reverse translation : (de Sardes).
Commentary
Poids léger. Ce type pourrait être contemporain des guerres mithirdatiques.
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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