bgr_775709 - PERSIS - KINGDOM OF PERSIS - UNKNOWN KING Hemidrachme
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Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 100 AC. - 100 AD.
Mint name / Town : Persépolis, Perside
Metal : silver
Diameter : 12,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,28 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale. Buste particulièrement bien venu à la frappe. Patine de collection avec des reflets dorés
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Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé du roi à gauche, tête coiffée de la tiare ornée d’un croissant de lune pointé, un bandeau simple, avec nœud qui tombe derrière la tête, la barbe triangulaire courte, les cheveux longs tombant sur la nuque.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LÉGENDE ARAMÉENNE.
Reverse description : Représentation d’un double diadème.
Commentary
Poids très léger. La tiare est ornée d’un croissant pointé, symbole lunisolaire du culte mazdéen. Très beau diadème pariculier au revers.
Historical background
PERSIS - KINGDOM OF PERSIS - UNKNOWN KING
(1st century BC - 1st century AD)
La Perside seems to have played an important role in the history of the Achaemenid Empire. Persepolis was one of the capitals of the Empire. La Perside kept a certain autonomy under the Macedonian domination which was perpetuated under the Parthians. The founder of the dynasty seems to have been Bagadate at the end of the 3rd century BC. The descendants of the monarchs of Perside seized the Parthian throne in order to found a new dynasty, the Sassanids. The unknown king (Y for de Morgan) would find his place between Napat, son of Namupat, grandson of Artaxerxes II (c. 57 BC) and Autophradate III.
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