Live auction - bgr_960456 - PHOENICIA - MARATHOS Dichalque
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Live starting : Type : Dichalque
Date: an 108
Mint name / Town : Marathos, Phénicie
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,47 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, centré. Joli revers. Usure plus marquée sur le buste. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection André Ronde
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste voilé et drapé d’Astarté à droite, coiffée du stéphané.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LETTRES ET CHIFFRES PHÉNICIENS.
Reverse description : Marathos drapé debout à gauche, tenant un aphlaston de la main droite tendue, le coude gauche appuyé sur une colonne.
Reverse translation : (an 108).
Commentary
Au droit, E. Babelon reconnaît dans le buste voilé celui de Bérénice II, la femme de Ptolémée III. Pièce datée de l’an 104 d’Arados. Pour cette date, F. Duyrat a recensé un exemplaire une paire de coin (A/39 -R/ 57).
Historical background
PHOENICIA - MARATHOS
(3rd - 2nd century BC)
Marathos was an old city of Phoenicia, hereditary enemy of Arados. While the maritime city had long remained under Seleucid influence, its rival had entered the lagid orbit. Arados became independent again in 259 BC. After Antiochus III and the Peace of Apamea, Egyptian power diminished in the region, especially under Ptolemy V (204-180 AC.) who lost most of the possessions from Syria. Eventually, Marathos was destroyed by its rival between 140 and 137 BC, when the new civic coinage of Arados was created. After the destruction of Marathos, the victors founded a colony on the ruins of the city.
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