v23_0139 - PHOENICIA - SIDON Seizième de shekel
MONNAIES 23 (2004)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
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Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Seizième de shekel
Date: an 3
Mint name / Town : Sidon
Metal : silver
Diameter : 11 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 0,61 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Faiblesse de frappe au droit dans la partie inférieure de la galère. Très joli revers, parfaitement centré
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LETTRE PHÉNICIENNE.
Obverse description : Galère de guerre voguant à gauche avec rameurs, rames et boucliers ; zigzag figurant la mer.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LETTRE PHÉNICIENNE.
Reverse description : Le grand Roi debout à gauche, tourné à droite combattant un lion dressé à gauche ; le tout dans les restes d’un carré creux.
Historical background
PHOENICIA - SIDON
(5th - 4th century BC)
Abd' Asthart Ier (Straton)
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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