bgr_420934 - SIKYONA - SIKYON Drachme
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Price : 980.00 €
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 431-400 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sikyonia, Sicyone
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 4,91 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement identifiable. Patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Jacob Hirsch (Münich) en 1910. Achété chez Leu en 1975. Provient de la collection BCD(étiquette) et de la vente CNG Eauction 344, n° 69
Obverse
Obverse description : Colombe volant à gauche.
Obverse legend : [S-E].
Obverse translation : (Sicyone).
Reverse
Reverse description : Colombe volant à gauche ; le tout dans une couronne d'olivier.
Commentary
Poids très léger. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la collection BCD (Coins of the Peloponnesos The BCD Collection, Leu 96, 8-9 mai 2006, n° 226.4, p. 73).
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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