E-auction 133-73643 - bgr_367912 - PHOENICIA - SIDON Demi-shekel
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| Estimate : | 350 € |
| Price : | 78 € |
| Maximum bid : | 88 € |
| End of the sale : | 02 November 2015 14:02:00 |
| bidders : | 6 bidders |
Type : Demi-shekel
Date: an 7
Mint name / Town : Sidon, Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 5,63 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier à l’usure très importante, identifiable. Patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Galère de guerre avec un rang de rameurs et sans voile amarrée à gauche devant les murs fortifiés d’une enceinte de ville crénelée et flanquée de quatre tours sur une ligne d’exergue ; à l’exergue deux lions opposés.
Reverse
Reverse legend : (BM) INSCRIPTION PHÉNICIENNE.
Reverse description : Le grand Roi, coiffé d’une cidaris, vêtu de la candys, debout à droite, tenant un poignard de la main droite et saisissant de la main gauche la crinière d’un lion dressé devant lui.
Commentary
Poids très léger. Au total, J. Elayi et A. G. Elayi ont recensé seulement sept exemplaires dans leur corpus consacré à Sidon.
Historical background
PHOENICIA - SIDON
(5th - 4th centuries BC)
Sidon was with Tire one of the main ports of the Phoenician coast, essentially a military port. Sidon was one of the oldest cities in Phenicia. The city was famous for the commercial exploitation of purple (murex). Its coinage seems to have begun in the second half of the 5th century BC and lasted until the Macedonian conquest in 332 BC. The city submitted to the conqueror without a fight, unlike its neighbor, Tyr who resisted for seven months. The new coinage of Sidon began in 112-111 BC Pompey maintained the status of a free city, later confirmed by Marc Antoine. Autonomous coinage ceased in 30/29 BC.
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