Live auction - bgr_957109 - PHOENICIA - SIDON Seizième de shekel
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Live starting : Type : Seizième de shekel
Date: an 3
Mint name / Town : Sidon, Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 8,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 0,67 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Très joli revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection André Ronde
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Galère de guerre voguant à gauche devant les fortifications de Sidon constituées de trois tours.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Roi perse couronné passant à droite le carquois sur l’épaule, tirant avec un arc bandé, tenant une lance de la main gauche ; de chaque côté, deux petites figues incuses ; le tout dans les restes d’un carré creux.
Historical background
PHOENICIA - SIDON
(5th - 4th century BC)
'Abd' Eschmun
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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