bgr_668153 - LYDIA - TRALLES Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: an 4
Mint name / Town : Tralles, Lydie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 6,03 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale, centré des deux côtés. Joli revers. Usure régulière. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus (Jupiter) à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Foudre horizontal dans une couronne.
Reverse legend : DIOS TRAL/LANIWN.
Reverse translation : (Dieu de Tralles).
Historical background
LYDIA - TRALLES
(2nd - 1st century BC)
Tralles was situated on a plateau dominating the valley of the lower Meander. The city was important and prosperous thanks to its surrounding fertile plains. She took the name of Seleucia for a moment. After the battle of Magnesia in 190 BC it passed from Seleucid domination to that of the kings of Pergamon with the rest of Lydia. It had an important cistophoric coinage. On the death of Attalus III, the city was attached to the new province of Asia and experienced significant development in Roman times thanks to the cult of Zeus Larasios.
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