E-auction 139-78778 - bgr_373709 - SIKYONIA - SIKYON Chalque
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| Estimate : | 75 € |
| Price : | 22 € |
| Maximum bid : | 23 € |
| End of the sale : | 14 December 2015 14:03:00 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Chalque
Date: c. 225-200 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicyone, Sicyonie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,81 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan à l’usure très importante, identifiable. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Colombe volant à droite.
Obverse legend : SI/ DI.
Obverse translation : Sicyone.
Reverse
Reverse description : Trépied dans une couronne d’olivier.
Commentary
Type avec la colombe à droite vu de face.
Historical background
SIKYONIA - SIKYON
(3rd - 1st 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. After the First Macedonian War, Sicyon entered the Achaean League. The latter was dissolved in 146 BC after the fall and destruction of Corinth and the final enslavement of Greece.
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