bpv_755468 - PHOENICIA - SIDON Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: an 53
Mint name / Town : Sidon, Phénicie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,29 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré à l’usure régulière. Usure plus marquée au revers qu’au droit. Patine marron foncé
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Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Europe assise sur un taureau chargeant à gauche, son voile flottant au-dessus d’elle.
Reverse legend : SIDWNIWN / [G]N.
Reverse translation : (de Sidon).
Commentary
Rare représentation d’Europe au revers d’une monnaie de Sidon.
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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