v41_0183 - SIKYONA - SIKYON Statère
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 1 100.00 €
Estimate : 2 500.00 €
Realised price : 1 100.00 €
Starting price : 1 100.00 €
Estimate : 2 500.00 €
Realised price : 1 100.00 €
Type : Statère
Date: c. 360-330 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicyone
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 12,29 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de flan large, ovale et irrégulier, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. En particulier, la couronne du revers est complète. Jolie patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Chimère passant à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse description : Colombe volant à droite ; le tout dans une couronne d'olivier.
Reverse legend : A/ Q
Commentary
Sur cet exemplaire de bonne conservation et d’une qualité de frappe remarquable, on distingue le plumage de la colombe et son œil. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de la collection BCD, Leu 96, n° 215, p. 70.
Historical background
SIKYONA - SIKYON
(4th century BC)
Sicyone, at the mouth of the Isthmus of Corinth in the Peloponnese, was the smallest political entity in this region with Phlius which it touched. Landlocked between Achaia and Argolis, it had been described by Homer in the Iliad as having been part of the kingdom of Agamemnon. We have little information on the history of the city before the end of the Persian Wars except that the region was often devastated by the Athenians, in particular under Pericles in 454 BC, according to E. Babelon. Coinage would only begin to become important after the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC..
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