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Live auction - bgr_960571 - PHOENICIA - SIDON Tetrachalque

PHOENICIA - SIDON Tetrachalque XF/VF
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bgr_960571
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Type : Tetrachalque
Date: an 169
Mint name / Town : Sidon, Phénicie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,63 g.
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Portrait agréable. Usure plus importante au revers. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection André Ronde

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe de Dionysos à gauche avec une couronne de vigne.

Reverse


Reverse description : Ciste mystique dans une couronne dionysiaque.
Reverse legend : QXR/ SIDWNOS/ QEAS.
Reverse translation : (Sidon la sainte, an 169).

Historical background


PHOENICIA - SIDON

(2nd - 1st century 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. The autonomous coinage ceased in 30/29 BC. Under the Empire, the city remained an important port.

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